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Creonic

Creonic adjective: resembling or characteristic of Creon, especially as portrayed in Sophocles' play Antigone: intolerant of those who disagree, holding onto and enforcing power, and indifferent to religious convention.

Adjective

Creonic (comparative more Creonic, superlative most Creonic)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of Creon, especially as portrayed in Sophocles' play Antigone: intolerant of those who disagree, holding onto and enforcing power, and indifferent to religious convention.
    • For so long as the judging consciousness refuses to recognize his own evil, he remains stubbornly Creonic.1995, Andrew Cutrofello, The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, →ISBN, page 2
    • Only the person who balances self-protection with yielding in this way can be either a lover or a friend: for the completely passive victim cannot act to help another, and the Creonic agent cannot see otherness.2001, Martha C. Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness, →ISBN

Forms of Creonic

comparativemore Creonic
superlativemost Creonic
alternative formCreonian

Origin of Creonic

From Creon + -ic.

Questions about Creonic

What does Creonic mean?
Creonic means resembling or characteristic of Creon, especially as portrayed in Sophocles' play Antigone: intolerant of those who disagree, holding onto and enforcing power, and indifferent to religious convention.
What part of speech is Creonic?
Creonic is an adjective.

Words near Creonic in the dictionary

  1. creoloids
  2. Creon
  3. Creone
  4. Creones
  5. Creonian
  6. Creonic
  7. creophage
  8. creophagia
  9. creophagist
  10. creophagists
  11. creophagous

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