astrophilic

astrophilic

English

Etymology

astro- +‎ -philic

Adjective

astrophilic (comparative more astrophilic, superlative most astrophilic)

1. (rare) Related to or exhibiting astrophilia.
   • 1971, New Guard, Volumes 11-12, page 24:

     […] is it specks on my glasses instead of lines of kids that I see in front of the movie houses hereabouts showing Brewster McCloud, the asinine tale of an astrophilic adolescent holing up in Houston's Astrodome; […]

   • 2012, "Space Panorama", Philadelphia City Paper, 2 May 2012:

     The cosmos is limitless. The theater, with its four pesky walls, is not. The contrast might faze many an astrophilic thespian, but British performer Andrew Dawson has embraced it.

   • 2012, Frank Baratta, "An Astronomical Movable Feast", Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society, Volume 29, Number 10, October 2012, page 2:

     For me, this urge to gather and the draw of the night sky combine to create an iconic vision: a lineup of telescopes, with a nebula in this one, a star cluster in another and a planet in yet another, and people moving from one to the other to savor a view, then returning to their own scope to locate and view a different object and share again. It’s an astrophilic breaking of bread, an astronomical movable feast!