hylic
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪlɪk/
The English word “hylic” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
noun
- A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either intellectual or spiritual matters.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin hylicus, from Ancient Greek ὑλικός (hulikós, “wooden, material”), from ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, forming adjectives”). As a noun, a clipped calque of homo hylicus (“hylic man”).
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