Hermetic
adjective
Completely airtight, no air or gas can come in or go out.
The jar was hermetically sealed to keep the contents fresh.
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Technical
adjective
Hidden or protected from the outside world.
The artist lived a hermetic existence, cut off from society.
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Formal
adjective
Hard to understand because it uses or relates to special knowledge, only known by a few people.
The writings are hermetic and difficult to decipher without special training.
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Completely airtight, no air or gas can come in or go out.
The jar was hermetically sealed to keep the contents fresh.
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Hidden or protected from the outside world.
The artist lived a hermetic existence, cut off from society.
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Formal
adjective
Hard to understand because it uses or relates to special knowledge, only known by a few people.
The writings are hermetic and difficult to decipher without special training.
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Absolute Seal
The term emphasizes an absolute seal, without any leaks.
The laboratory containers were hermetic to prevent contamination.
Pro Tip 2/3Preservation Quality
Hermetic sealing is key for long-term storage of food or materials.
Food companies use hermetic packaging to extend shelf life.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Context
It is often used in technical contexts like engineering or science.
The spacecraft's compartments must be hermetic to protect the crew.
Pro Tip 1/3Absolute Seal
The term emphasizes an absolute seal, without any leaks.
The laboratory containers were hermetic to prevent contamination.
Pro Tip 2/3Preservation Quality
Hermetic sealing is key for long-term storage of food or materials.
Food companies use hermetic packaging to extend shelf life.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Context
It is often used in technical contexts like engineering or science.
The spacecraft's compartments must be hermetic to protect the crew.
Pro Tip 1/3Absolute Seal
The term emphasizes an absolute seal, without any leaks.
The laboratory containers were hermetic to prevent contamination.
Pro Tip 2/3Preservation Quality
Hermetic sealing is key for long-term storage of food or materials.
Food companies use hermetic packaging to extend shelf life.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Context
It is often used in technical contexts like engineering or science.
The spacecraft's compartments must be hermetic to protect the crew.
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Atheism 2.0 - Alain de...
that art should live in a hermetic bubble and should not try and do anything with this troubled world I couldn't disagree more the other thing that we believe is that art shouldn't explain itself that artists shouldn't say what they're up to because if they said it they might destroy the spell and we might be you know we might find it too easy that's why a very common
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Atheism 2.0 PIPE Alain de...
The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from The first idea is that art should be for art's sake -- a ridiculous idea -- an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubble
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Atheism 2.0 - Alain de...
that art should live in a hermetic bubble and should not try and do anything with this troubled world I couldn't disagree more the other thing that we believe is that art shouldn't explain itself that artists shouldn't say what they're up to because if they said it they might destroy the spell and we might be you know we might find it too easy that's why a very common
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Atheism 2.0 PIPE Alain de...
The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from The first idea is that art should be for art's sake -- a ridiculous idea -- an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubble
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Per Petterson
Norwegian Novelist
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?
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Toby Jones
English Actor
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
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Joseph Brodsky
American Poet
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.
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Sebastian Horsley
British Artist
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.
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Isabel Allende
Chilean Writer
I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.
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Lia Ices
American Musician
I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.
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Irving Howe
American Historian
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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Manu Chao
Spanish Musician
What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.
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John Perry Barlow
American Writer
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
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David Cage
French Designer
I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.
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Per Petterson
Norwegian Novelist
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?
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Toby Jones
English Actor
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
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Joseph Brodsky
American Poet
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.
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Sebastian Horsley
British Artist
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.
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Isabel Allende
Chilean Writer
I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.
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Lia Ices
American Musician
I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.
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Irving Howe
American Historian
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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Manu Chao
Spanish Musician
What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.
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John Perry Barlow
American Writer
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
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David Cage
French Designer
I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.
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