mantric

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Relating to a repeated calm chant used in meditation

adjective
/ˈmæntrɪk/

: mantrico

In yoga class, we focused on mantric words to enhance our breathing and focus.

Examples

The mantric chant echoed through the temple, promoting a sense of peace among the worshippers.
Within the Tantric curriculum, there are considerable ritual and mantric practices, as well as yogic attainments, which serve as prerequisites for undertaking the practices of sexual yoga.

Academic text (1992)
During meditation, I often repeat a mantric phrase to help calm my mind.

Synonyms

incantatory

vsmantric

Literature

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Having a chant-like sound that makes you feel calm and dreamy

is calmer and used in meditation, repeated to soothe

chantlike

vsmantric

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A slow, steady sound that repeats like people singing the same short words

is more about calming ritual repetition and meditation than sound alone

How Meditative

hypnotic

Specialized

21 7.0

entrancing

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mantric

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calming

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soothing

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Surface Forms

mantric positive

Morphology

mantric = mantra (transparent) = mantra + ic

Standard adjectival formation from the noun 'mantra' with the productive suffix '-ic', so the meaning 'relating to or resembling a mantra' is directly predictable.

Etymology

Mantric comes from the Sanskrit word mantra, which meant a 'tool for thought' and referred to a short phrase people repeat in prayer or meditation, and is also the same mantra we use in English today. So, something mantric is like a calm, repeated chant or phrase used to focus or soothe the mind.