different between chasm vs chasmic

English

Etymology

From Latin chasma, from Ancient Greek ????? (khásma, “abyss, cleft”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæz(?)m/

Noun

chasm (plural chasms)

1. (geology, planetology) A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.
2. (by extension) A large difference of opinion.

Alternative forms

• chasma (obsolete)

Derived terms

• chasmal
• chasmatical (unattested; appears only in dictionaries)
• chasmy

Related terms

• chasma (“long, narrow, steep-sided depression on a body in the solar system”)

Translations

References

• chasm (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rift on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HMACs, cha'ms, chams

English

Etymology

chasm +? -ic

Adjective

chasmic (comparative more chasmic, superlative most chasmic)

1. Like a chasm.
   • 1997, Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Christian Discourses

     No, just as there was a chasmic abyss between that rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham's bosom […]

   • 2003, Jack Kugelmass, Key texts in American Jewish culture

     The once chasmic divide based on a socially and to some degree mutually constructed sense of racial difference was transforming into something different […]