different between antithalian vs thalia

English

anti- +? thalian

antithalian (comparative more antithalian, superlative most antithalian)

(formal) Opposed to fun or festivity.
- 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
  Mr Toobad described her as being […] altogether as gloomy and antithalian a young lady as Mr Glowry himself could desire for the future mistress of Nightmare Abbey.
- 1990, Houchang E. Chehabi, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini (I.B.Tauris, ?ISBN p.82:
  an ascetic component that has caused many postrevolutionary societies, whatever their ideology, to become so unspeakably antithalian after the initial period of creative euphoria is over.

Wikispecies

From the genus name.

thalia (plural thalias)

(botany) Any of the genus Thalia of tropical plants found in aquatic or marshy habitats.

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