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icon | iconophobic |

As a noun icon

is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

As an adjective iconophobic is

pertaining to those who hate images, especially religious icons.

icon

English

(wikipedia icon)

Alternative forms

* eikon, ikon

Noun

(en noun)
  • An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
  • A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
  • A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
    • That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
  • A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
  • (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
  • Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.

    • Derived terms

    * aniconic, aniconism * iconism

    Related terms

    * iconic * iconoclasm, iconoclast, iconoclastic * iconify * iconography * iconstasis

    Anagrams

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    iconophobic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to those who hate images, especially religious icons.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 717:
    • Although nothing came of the scheme, it is one reminder among many that Protestants might hate idolatrous Spanish Catholics more than they did iconophobic Muslims.