Standard Lemma guide

odylic

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɒˈdɪlɪk/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /əʊ-/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ɑˈdɪlɪk/
  • General-American: /oʊ-/
  • rhymes with -ɪlɪk

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adj

Meaning 1

Of or pertaining to the od or odyle (“a hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical, not-comparable

Topics: pseudoscience

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: odic

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From odyle, odyl + -ic (suffix meaning of or pertaining to forming adjectives from nouns). Odyle, odyl is derived from od (borrowed from German Od, arbitrarily coined by the German scientist and philosopher Carl Reichenbach (1788–1869)) + Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood; material, matter, substance”).

Across languages

Translations

10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: òdic — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • Finnish: odylinen — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • German: odisch — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • Greek: οντικός (ontikós) — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • Italian: odico — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • Portuguese: ódico — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • Romanian: odică — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • Russian: оди́ческая (odíčeskaja) — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • Spanish: odílico — of or pertaining to the od or odyle
  • Spanish: ódico — of or pertaining to the od or odyle