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Irenic vs Sirenic - What's the difference?

irenic | sirenic |

As adjectives the difference between irenic and sirenic

is that irenic is promoting or fitted to promote peace; conciliatory, non-confrontational; peaceful while sirenic is resembling or relating to a mythical siren.

irenic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Promoting or fitted to promote peace; conciliatory, non-confrontational; peaceful.
  • *2001 , (Hywel Williams), The Guardian , 30 Nov 2001:
  • *:The idea that the Jews of the region are not genetically distinct from other peoples of the area should be an irenic insight.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 199:
  • *:The philosophes contrasted their own irenic calls for tolerance with the church's historical record as the perennial source of cruelty and fanaticism.
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 343:
  • *:The current comity between the United States and China […] is a recent reminder of the irenic effects of trade.

    • Related terms

    * irenical * irenicon * irenics

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    sirenic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or relating to a mythical siren.