Definitions for "Dionysian"
Related to the Greek God Dionysus, the god of wine, agriculture, fertility, ecstasy, and the mysteries of personal transformation. Often contrasted with Apollinian.
Passionate revelry, uninhibited pleasure-seeking; the opposite of Apollonian, according to Friedrich Nietzsche, who considered drama a merger of these two primary impulses in the Greek character.
of or relating to or worshipping Dionysus
Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.