chasmic

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English

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Etymology

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chasm +‎ -ic

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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chasmic (comparative more chasmic, superlative most chasmic)

  1. Like a chasm.
    • 1997, Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Christian Discourses:
      No, just as there was a chasmic abyss between that rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham's bosom []
    • 2003, Jack Kugelmass, Key texts in American Jewish culture:
      The once chasmic divide based on a socially and to some degree mutually constructed sense of racial difference was transforming into something different []

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