Gaian
English
Etymology
Gaia + -an
Adjective
Gaian (comparative more Gaian, superlative most Gaian)
- Of or relating to Gaia.
- 1988, Lynn Margulis, “Jim Lovelock’s Gaia”, in Peter Bunyard and Edward Goldsmith, editors, Gaia, the Thesis, the Mechanisms and the Implications: Proceedings of the First Annual Camelford Conference on the Implications of the Gaia Hypothesis, held on 21–24th October 1987 in Cornwall, Camelford, Cornwall: Wadebridge Ecological Centre, →ISBN, page 50:
- Having recognised the Gaian phenomenon I would like to explain where I think Gaia comes from and ask for how long this Gaia phenomenon has persisted on the surface of the Earth. And then I would like to raise some of the objections to the Gaia hypothesis. To my knowledge the Gaia hypothesis has never been discussed in polite scientific society by sympathetic scientists; this is an all time first.
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Noun
Gaian (plural Gaians)
- A radical Green who views the ecology of the Earth's biosphere not only as the basis of human moral examples, but of all cognition and even sentience.
Translations
radical Green
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Anagrams
- AAing, Ganai, Giana, Nagai, again, again-