miasmic

miasmic
a) Filled with miasma; containing noxious vapors.

Will thought of the shadowy miasmic forest they would all soon move into, a way of living that was an inversion of all their values.

b) Composed of or resembling vapors.

Such experiences were unlike dreams, or any of the miasmic apparitions that arise in the natural psyche, below the mind.


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