"lethetic" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "alethetic"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "grc",
        "3": "λήθω",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to forget"
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      "expansion": "Ancient Greek λήθω (lḗthō, “to forget”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from Ancient Greek λήθω (lḗthō, “to forget”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lethetic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lethetic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "lethetic (comparative more lethetic, superlative most lethetic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Fantasy Review - Issues 64-74:",
          "text": "These lethetic fictions cut their ties to the real world, refusing to be mirrors of life.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, the New Orleans Review - Volume 12:",
          "text": "If the structure of language is accepted as mirroring the world, the trope ceases to be a lethetic figure",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Clayton Koelb, Kafka's rhetoric: the passion of reading:",
          "text": "Lethetic reading, on the other hand, could be liberating and indeed is liberating for some of Kafka's characters and for Kafka himself some of the time",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Failing to mirror reality, purely escapist or nonsensical."
      ],
      "id": "en-lethetic-en-adj-o3gCA3eo",
      "links": [
        [
          "reality",
          "reality"
        ],
        [
          "escapist",
          "escapist"
        ],
        [
          "nonsensical",
          "nonsensical"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lethologica"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "unrealistic"
        },
        {
          "word": "escapist"
        },
        {
          "word": "fantastic"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lethetic"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "alethetic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "grc",
        "3": "λήθω",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to forget"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek λήθω (lḗthō, “to forget”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from Ancient Greek λήθω (lḗthō, “to forget”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lethetic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lethetic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "lethetic (comparative more lethetic, superlative most lethetic)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lethologica"
    }
  ],
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        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Fantasy Review - Issues 64-74:",
          "text": "These lethetic fictions cut their ties to the real world, refusing to be mirrors of life.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, the New Orleans Review - Volume 12:",
          "text": "If the structure of language is accepted as mirroring the world, the trope ceases to be a lethetic figure",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Clayton Koelb, Kafka's rhetoric: the passion of reading:",
          "text": "Lethetic reading, on the other hand, could be liberating and indeed is liberating for some of Kafka's characters and for Kafka himself some of the time",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Failing to mirror reality, purely escapist or nonsensical."
      ],
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        [
          "reality",
          "reality"
        ],
        [
          "escapist",
          "escapist"
        ],
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          "nonsensical",
          "nonsensical"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "unrealistic"
    },
    {
      "word": "escapist"
    },
    {
      "word": "fantastic"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lethetic"
}