"Dickian" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Dick",
        "3": "ian"
      },
      "expansion": "Dick + -ian",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Dick + -ian",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Dickian",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Dickian",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Dickian (comparative more Dickian, superlative most Dickian)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, Brian W. Aldiss, Dick's Maledictory Web: About and Around Martian Time-Slip",
          "text": "Later, Dickian characters are frequently to find themselves trapped in hallucinations or fake worlds of various kinds, often without knowing it or, if knowing it, without being able to do anything about it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Robert Silverberg, Reflections: The Days of Perky Vivienne",
          "text": "A case in point is the announcement last spring that a Hong Kong company, Artificial Life, Inc.—what a Dickian name!—is about to provide the lonely men of this world with a virtual girlfriend named Vivienne, who can be accessed via cellphone for a basic monthly fee of six dollars.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, D. E. Wittkower, Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits?, Open Court Publishing, page 6",
          "text": "Maybe the screenwriters thought the original stories were too hard to tell in movie form, but I suspect a clash between the Dickian worldview and the Holly-worldview is the real culprit. The Dickian worldview wouldn't work in a Hollywood movie (meaning less box office revenue). […] People don't like their belief in free will questioned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of, pertaining to or resembling the works of author Philip K. Dick or the themes expressed therein."
      ],
      "id": "en-Dickian-en-adj-UID7ZRR2",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Phildickian"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Dickian"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Dick",
        "3": "ian"
      },
      "expansion": "Dick + -ian",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Dick + -ian",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Dickian",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Dickian",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Dickian (comparative more Dickian, superlative most Dickian)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ian",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, Brian W. Aldiss, Dick's Maledictory Web: About and Around Martian Time-Slip",
          "text": "Later, Dickian characters are frequently to find themselves trapped in hallucinations or fake worlds of various kinds, often without knowing it or, if knowing it, without being able to do anything about it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Robert Silverberg, Reflections: The Days of Perky Vivienne",
          "text": "A case in point is the announcement last spring that a Hong Kong company, Artificial Life, Inc.—what a Dickian name!—is about to provide the lonely men of this world with a virtual girlfriend named Vivienne, who can be accessed via cellphone for a basic monthly fee of six dollars.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, D. E. Wittkower, Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits?, Open Court Publishing, page 6",
          "text": "Maybe the screenwriters thought the original stories were too hard to tell in movie form, but I suspect a clash between the Dickian worldview and the Holly-worldview is the real culprit. The Dickian worldview wouldn't work in a Hollywood movie (meaning less box office revenue). […] People don't like their belief in free will questioned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of, pertaining to or resembling the works of author Philip K. Dick or the themes expressed therein."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Phildickian"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Dickian"
}