Aniconic

//anʌɪˈkɒnɪk// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to representations without human or animal form.

    "aniconic worship"

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iconic

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"While Father Kronos and the world he ruled, confident that the new anthropomorphism was destroyed, clung to the stone child, the aniconic pillar worship that expressed itself in the Bethels of the Semites and the Pillar Rooms at Knossos."

Etymology

From an- + iconic.

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