zombola
05-15-2015, 11:33 AM
\ ey-FOH-tik \ , adjective;
1.
Lightless; dark.
Quotes:
I sat curled up on the sofa, trapped in the dream from which I had begun to awaken, but still lost in the reminiscence of our aphotic rendezvous.
-- Žakalin Nežić, Goodbye Serbia
The stars and moon outside the windows on the twenty- first floor of Fordum Towers shined in the distance, the sky otherwise ebony and aphotic.
-- Steven Gillis, Water Falls
Origin:
Coined in the early 1900s, aphotic comes from the Greek word photic meaning "light," as in the word photo , and the prefix a- meaning "not."
1.
Lightless; dark.
Quotes:
I sat curled up on the sofa, trapped in the dream from which I had begun to awaken, but still lost in the reminiscence of our aphotic rendezvous.
-- Žakalin Nežić, Goodbye Serbia
The stars and moon outside the windows on the twenty- first floor of Fordum Towers shined in the distance, the sky otherwise ebony and aphotic.
-- Steven Gillis, Water Falls
Origin:
Coined in the early 1900s, aphotic comes from the Greek word photic meaning "light," as in the word photo , and the prefix a- meaning "not."