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also hermetical
as in esoteric
difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand
wrote hermetic poetry whose sole intended readership was himself
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Recent Examples of hermetic
The comparisons are mostly unflattering to The Phoenician Scheme, which is neither as touching nor as joyful as those earlier films, choked by the hermetic tidiness that occasionally haunts Anderson’s work.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
In this episode, the ladies finally move out of their hermetic bubble of giggles and gossip and start trying to engage more with their surroundings.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
This isn’t a hermetic kind of meditation, one in which outer havoc is kept at bay.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Once a place where friends and family entered through perpetually open doors, the space becomes hermetic and airless when curtains are drawn to hide the men who have come to disrupt this idyllic refuge.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
In this episode, the ladies finally move out of their hermetic bubble of giggles and gossip and start trying to engage more with their surroundings.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
This isn’t a hermetic kind of meditation, one in which outer havoc is kept at bay.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Once a place where friends and family entered through perpetually open doors, the space becomes hermetic and airless when curtains are drawn to hide the men who have come to disrupt this idyllic refuge.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermetic
esoteric
Adjective
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Unfortunately, tenure, even in the best schools, gets rewarded to professors who write articles filled with complex math or esoteric theories in sociology and psychology.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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While the syntax of esoteric languages may be hard to understand, the actual programming stack is often wonderfully simple.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Hermetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermetic. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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