Definitions for Dionysian

Dionysian Di·o·ny·sian

Spelling: [dahy-uh-nish-uh n, -nis-ee- Dionysian is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in Dionysian (adiinnosy).

Definitions for Dionysian

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
  2. recklessly uninhibited; unrestrained; undisciplined; frenzied; orgiastic.

Origin of Dionysian

First recorded in 1600-10; Dionys(us) + -ian

Examples for Dionysian

The two faces of the Greek art he calls the Apollonian and the Dionysian impulses.

It appeared to him, the profound Greek scholar, as a recrudescence of Dionysian joy.

The Dionysian writings presented a way of escape from this terrible alternative.

This was a strictly Dionysian thought and one shared also by Pico.

It was clear to me that at least at the end of his life the Dionysian streak was trying to get out.

A second clearly marked wave of the Dionysian impulse towards freedom swept over the Western world during the Renaissance.

Erigena teaches the restitution of all things under the form of the Dionysian adunatio or deificatio.

Would I were a lovely heap of ivory, and that lovely boys carried me into the Dionysian chorus.

The innocence of youth should be protected from a morality which is far more morbid than the maddest Dionysian revel.

Despite his praise of the Dionysian element in art and life, a puritan was buried in the nerves of Nietzsche.

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