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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

seamlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From seam + -like.

Meanings

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a seam.
    • In this context, the figments of Lesje’s imagination — the visions of gorgosauruses, pterodactyls, and iguanodons — function at the point of suture as the seamlike line of junction between her Imaginary existence and a symbolic one. 1996, Sonia Mycak, In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 128:

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most seamlike Degree=Sup lexicographic
more seamlike Degree=Cmp lexicographic