antemundane

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adjective

Being or occurring prior to the creation of the world.

Similar
premundane
OriginEnglish mundane ← Classical Latin ante- ← Latin ante →
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Meanings

adjectiveantemundane (not comparable)

alternative ante-mundane

  1. not comparableBeing or occurring prior to the creation of the world.

    Again he became the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech in Mhu Thulan; again he dreamt to retrieve the wisdom of the antemundane gods […]

    1933, Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla
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    The night in all its fulness met her flatly on the threshold, like the very brink of an absolute void, or the ante-mundane Ginnung-Gap believed in by her Teuton forefathers.

    1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in The Woodlanders, volume I, page 31

    Synonyms: premundane

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveBeing or occurring prior to the creation of the world.

Similar
premundane
Also see
premundane

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énti
  4. Proto-Italic*anti
  5. Latinante
  6. Classical Latinante-
  7. Englishante-
  8. Englishmundane
  9. Englishantemundane

From ante- + mundane.

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APA

antemundane. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antemundane

MLA

“antemundane.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antemundane. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antemundane,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antemundane.

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