Ananke
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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē, “Fate”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ananke
- (Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.
- Coordinate term: Necessitas
- 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cyprian Overbeck Wells. A Literary Mosaic:
- “‘To tell you that the eternities beget chaos, and that the immensities are at the mercy of the divine ananke. Infinitude crouches before a personality. The mercurial essence is the prime mover in spirituality, and the thinker is powerless before the pulsating inanity. The cosmical procession is terminated only by the unknowable and unpronounceable’——
- (astronomy) A moon of Jupiter.
Translations
Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate
German
Proper noun
Ananke f (proper noun, genitive Ananke)
- (Greek mythology) Ananke
- 1930, Sigmund Freud, chapter IV, in Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [Civilization and Its Discontents], Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 64:
- Eros und Ananke sind auch die Eltern der menschlichen Kultur geworden.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ananke f