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Tweet suff. Used to form adjectives usually from nouns ending in -esis, as in aphaeretic from aphaeresis. [Latin -eticus, from Greek -etikos, from -etos, verbal adj. suff.] |
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adj. Of or relating to features or items analyzed without considering their role as a structural unit in a system such as a language or a culture. [From (PHON)ETIC.] |
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