dionysian

Speech parts

1. dionysian - Noun

2. dionysian - Adjective

Meaning

Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wild orgiastic drunken bacchanalian bacchic dionysiac abandoned pagan chaotic passionate turbulent Dionysus feral ecstatic intoxicated
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Antonyms

pure spiritual clean modest upright decent
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Phrases with the word

dionysian theater

Examples

The Dionysian is no picnic. Camille Paglia

And this is the whole shabby secret: to some men, the sight of an achievement is a reproach, a reminder that their own lives are irrational, and that there is no loophole - no escape from reason and reality. Their resentment is the cornered Dionysian element baring its teeth. Ayn Rand

I've always had numinous dreams, and a lot of them feature a Dionysian character I named The Boy in the Tree. Elizabeth Hand

Ironically, it was not in his nihilistic view of Buddhism but in such ideas as amor fati and the Dionysian as the overcoming of nihilism that Nietzsche came closest to Buddhism, and especially to Mahāyāna. Keiji Nishitani

A main theme in The Birth of Tragedy was that the fusion of Dionysian and Apollonian "Kunsttrieben" ("artistic impulses") forms dramatic arts, or tragedies. Source: Internet

But other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dionysiac Dionysiacal Dionysiacally dionysian theater Dionysius Dionysius the Elder