volcanistic en · ADJ
Etymology
From volcano + -istic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, or related to volcanism.
The old volcanistic metaphor is especially apt: a thick, hard crust of earth, beneath which bubbles, hot liquid magma pressing for release above.
2004, Howard F. Stein, Beneath the Crust of Culture: Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Cultural: