ananke

Noun

ananke

1. Necessity beyond all supplications or sway.

Conceived as the ultimate dictator of all fate and circumstances… to which even the gods must ultimately pay homage and deference.

6 letters in word "ananke": A A E K N N.

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Words found within ananke:

aa ae ake an ana anan ane ann anna ea ean en ka kae kana kane kea ken na naan nae nan nana ne nek

• Definitions:
• Ananke is Jupiter's thirteenth moon. Ananke is 12.5 miles (20 km) in diameter and orbits 13,100,000 miles (21,200,000 km) from Jupiter. ...
• Greek term for "necessity" or "that which has to be;" ananke was the force in the universe that kept "the natural order of things."
• fate as necessity
• Ananke (?-nang'-kee, ; Greek ??????) is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1951Nicholson, S.B., An unidentified object near Jupiter, probably a new satellite, PASP 63 (1951) 297-299 and is named after the ...
• In Greek mythology, Ananke (Greek ) was the personification of destiny, unalterable necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle. She was also the mother of the Moirae. She was rarely worshipped until the creation of the Orphic mystery religion. ...

• anandrous ←
• ananases ←
• ananas ←
• ananke
• → anankes
• → ananthous
• → anapaest