agonic

Meanings

Adjective

• Lacking an angle.
• Having a magnetic deviation of zero.
• Synonym of agonal
• Characterized by agony.
• Of a mode of social interaction based on threats, displays of power, or inducements of anxiety.
• Occurring shortly before death; agonal.

Noun

• Synonym of agonic line.

Origin

• From Ancient Greek ἀ- ("the alpha privativum, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached") + γωνία -ic.
• Borrowed from French agonique ("possessing or filled with agony; agonous"), from agonie + -ique (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-kos ("suffix forming adjectives denoting ‘the characteristic of, typical of, pertaining to’")). Agonie is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek ἀγωνίᾱ ("agony, anguish"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- ("to drive").