Ananke

From Ancient Greek Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē, “Fate”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈnæŋki/

Ananke

1. (Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.

   Coordinate term: Necessitas

   • 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cyprian Overbeck Wells. A Literary Mosaic:

     “‘To tell you that the eternities beget chaos, and that the immensities are at the mercy of the divine ananke. Infinitude crouches before a personality. The mercurial essence is the prime mover in spirituality, and the thinker is powerless before the pulsating inanity. The cosmical procession is terminated only by the unknowable and unpronounceable’——

2. (astronomy) A moon of Jupiter.

Ananke f (proper noun, genitive Ananke)

1. (Greek mythology) Ananke
   • 1930, Sigmund Freud, chapter IV, in Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [Civilization and Its Discontents]‎, Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 64:

     Eros und Ananke sind auch die Eltern der menschlichen Kultur geworden.

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• Ananque

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē).

Ananke f

1. (Greek mythology) Ananke (goddess of destiny, necessity and fate)