anaclastic

From Ancient Greek ἀνακλάω (anakláō, “bend back, reflect”).

• Rhymes: -æstɪk

anaclastic (not comparable)

1. Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water.

   anaclastic curves

2. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.
   • 1928, Julius Meier-Graefe, Dostoevsky: The Man and His Work, page 70:

     The Double reflects the drama of the lonely man of our time as in an anaclastic glass. What is piquant is that the costs of the fruitless emancipation are borne, not by a hero, a great personage, but by an amusing little fellow, one of the poor people .

• anaclastic glass