astrophilic

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English

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Etymology

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From astro- +‎ -philic.

Adjective

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astrophilic (comparative more astrophilic, superlative most astrophilic)

  1. (rare) Related to or exhibiting astrophilia.
    • 1971, New Guard, volumes 11-12, page 24:
      [] is it specks on my glasses instead of lines of kids that I see in front of the movie houses hereabouts showing Brewster McCloud, the asinine tale of an astrophilic adolescent holing up in Houston's Astrodome; []
    • 2012 May 2, “Space Panorama”, in Philadelphia City Paper:
      The cosmos is limitless. The theater, with its four pesky walls, is not. The contrast might faze many an astrophilic thespian, but British performer Andrew Dawson has embraced it.
    • 2012 October, Frank Baratta, “An Astronomical Movable Feast”, in Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society, volume 29, number 10, page 2:
      For me, this urge to gather and the draw of the night sky combine to create an iconic vision: a lineup of telescopes, with a nebula in this one, a star cluster in another and a planet in yet another, and people moving from one to the other to savor a view, then returning to their own scope to locate and view a different object and share again. It’s an astrophilic breaking of bread, an astronomical movable feast!