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HYLIC
Etymology
Adjective
hylic (not comparable)
Having to do with, or of the nature of, matter.
Synonyms
• hyletic
• material
Noun
hylic (plural hylics)
(gnosticism) The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.
Source: Wiktionary
Hyl"ic, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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