hermetically
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /hɚˈmɛt.ɪk(.ə)li/, [hɚˈmɛɾ.ɪk(.ə)li]
Audio (General American): (file)
Adverb
[edit]hermetically (comparative more hermetically, superlative most hermetically)
- In a hermetic way.
- With a hermetic seal; so as to be airtight.
- a hermetically sealed jar; they hermetically seal the jars
- In an isolated manner.
- Synonym: isolatedly
- Hyponym: (of persons' lifestyles) hermitically
- living hermetically
- 2001, Timothy J. Lenz, James K. McDowell, “Knowledge management for the strategic design and manufacture of polymer composite products”, in Rajkumar Roy, editor, Industrial Knowledge Management: A Micro-Level Approach, →ISBN, page 379:
- Too often, this interchange of knowledge is thwarted, one way or another: the entropic leanings of the workplace foster hermetically isolated patterns of behavior.
- 2025 February 20, John McWhorter, “How ‘Woke’ Became the ‘Woke Right’ (and Why It Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone)”, in New York Times[1]:
- This was partly because of the fact that race issues were so contentious in the late 2010s, but anyone who thinks race wasn’t being discussed hotly in the late 1980s either wasn’t there or was living quite hermetically. The more important difference was social media, which propagates and even transforms terms more rapidly than broadcasting and print.
- With a hermetic seal; so as to be airtight.
Usage notes
[edit]The collocation *hermitically sealed in reference to packaging is a mild catachresis, but when speaking of persons' lifestyles, living hermitically is broadly synonymous with living hermetically (with potential for hyponymy in precise use).
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
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