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lethetic en · ADJ

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek λήθω (lḗthō, “to forget”).

Meanings

1. Failing to mirror reality, purely escapist or nonsensical.
   • Lethetic reading, on the other hand, could be liberating and indeed is liberating for some of Kafka's characters and for Kafka himself some of the time 1989, Clayton Koelb, Kafka's rhetoric: the passion of reading:
   • These lethetic fictions cut their ties to the real world, refusing to be mirrors of life. 1984, Fantasy Review - Issues 64-74:
   • If the structure of language is accepted as mirroring the world, the trope ceases to be a lethetic figure 1985, the New Orleans Review - Volume 12:

Forms

Antonyms

alethetic

Relateds

lethologica

Synonyms

fantastic · escapist · unrealistic