anthropophagic en · ADJ
Etymology
From anthropo- + -phagic.
Meanings
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Cannibalistic; man-eating.
They embody the anthropophagic attitude of tropicalismo: constantly changing and taking from the cosmos, yet always remaining rooted in themselves.
2007 September 30, Devendra Banhart, “From Uruguay’s Dylan to R. Kelly’s ‘Sex Planet’”, in New York Times:Consumed, with its narrative cat’s cradle tightly woven around putatively anthropophagic husband-and-wife French philosophers, wouldn’t be easy to pitch to Hollywood execs.
2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more anthropophagic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most anthropophagic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
it antropofagico (Translations)