Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to that form of culture in which only simple appliances are used: opposed to manganic.
  • Of or pertaining to naturism or nature-worship.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective in accord with naturism

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Examples

  • The moving image is so slippery that spillover between the oneiric and the naturistic is inevitable.

    The Moving Image and Its 2008

  • But a few years before the ascendancy of such interpretations, a new naturistic-rationalistic evalua - tion of mythology came suddenly into prominence.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968

  • Babylonianists link the naturistic origin of myths with their historical diffusion.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968

  • True to their acoustic mantra, they maintain an earthy, naturistic, rootsy feel.

    the echo and echoplex 2010

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