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penumbrous

adj
/pɪˈnʌmbɹəs/UK

Etymology

From penumbra + -ous.

  1. derived from paene
  2. borrowed from pēnumbra
  3. formed as penumbrous — “penumbra + -ous”

Definitions

  1. Partially shaded.

    • the penumbrous calm of the cathedral interior

  2. Vague

    Vague; ill-defined; unclear.

    • Everyone knows God in his penumbrous knowledge of common esse.
    • This is that from which metaphor springs dissatisfying, penumbrous - the silence on occult matters, or those of predestination, of genetics or environment - and the source of circumlocution, the ambiguous alchemical directives.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for penumbrous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA