Meaning & use

Edenic

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Resembling the Garden of Eden; idyllically beautiful, peaceful, and innocent.

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The travel brochure described the island's edenic beaches and untouched forests.

Their childhood on the farm seemed edenic in hindsight, free of any real worry.

A note on using this word

Derived from the biblical Garden of Eden, the word is almost always used to evoke a lost or unattainable perfection.

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