Definitions for Hermetic

Hermetic her·met·ic

Spelling: [hur-met-ik]
IPA: /hɜrˈmɛt ɪk/

Hermetic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in Hermetic (ceehimrt).

Definitions for Hermetic

adjective

  1. made airtight by fusion or sealing.
  2. not affected by outward influence or power; isolated.
  3. (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of occult science, especially alchemy.
  4. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings ascribed to him.

Origin of Hermetic

1630-40; Medieval Latin hermēticus of, pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus, equivalent to Latin Hermē(s) Hermes + -ticus -tic

Examples for Hermetic

Certainly it is not so used ordinarily in the hermetic writings.

Behind them, the huge inverted bowl of the city glowed in hermetic splendor.

We love to laugh at Kim and Company because it distracts our souls from the horrific reality of their hermetic regime.

“The priests must be hiding the hermetic wisdom on purpose,” said Lucius.

The government of Colombia decided to loan the 28,000 square meter fixer-upper to a fraternity of hermetic Benedictine monks.

At that time Paris was the centre of the hermetic science in France.

Detailed exposition of the hermetic writings will here be impossible.

And Demme, by barely indicating the visual presence of the audience until the end, intensifies the closed-off, hermetic feeling.

From his early youth, he delighted in the visions of the hermetic science.

It amounted to a surgical replacement of one hermetic elite by another.

Word Value for Hermetic
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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