Meanings
adjectiveplacial (not comparable)
- not comparablegeographyRelating to places, or to conceptions of place.
In other words, there is a potential for places and placial beings to express the limitless space.
2021, Timothy Tambassi, Marcello Tanca, The Philosophy of Geography, page 1111 more example
The Philosophy and Geography Conferences have been designed to promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary conversations on the basis of the spatial/placial component that pervades all landscapes.
2003, Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Tensional Landscapes: The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements, page IX
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Rhymes with placial
facialspatialracialglacialmaxillofacialmultiracialcraniofacialpalatialbiracialinterglacialorofacialsubglacialpostglacialperiglacialhemifacialdentofacialabbatialacousticofacialacrofacialbasifacialbifacialbrachyfacialbuccofacialcardiofacial
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APA
placial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/placial
MLA
“placial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/placial. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “placial,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/placial.
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