- Greek Mythology.
- Of or relating to Dionysus.
- Of or devoted to the worship of Dionysus.
- often dionysian Of an ecstatic, orgiastic, or irrational nature; frenzied or undisciplined: "remained the nearest to the instinctual, the irrational in music, and thus to the Dionysian spirit in art" (Musco Carner).
- often dionysian In the philosophy of Nietzsche, of or displaying creative-intuitive power as opposed to critical-rational power.
[From Latin Dionȳsius, from Greek Dionūsios, from Dionūsos, Dionysus.]





