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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

维利能量

Pronunciation / Transliteration: wéilì néngliàng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vril/ˈvrɪl/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"维利是早期科幻小说中虚构的一种强大力量。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A fictional, all-powerful energy or electricity wielded by an advanced subterranean master race in 19th-century speculative fiction.

    "In the novel, the inhabitants of the hollow earth used vril to heal, destroy, and power their advanced civilization."
  2. 2

    A hypothetical universal life force or occult energy source referenced in esoteric philosophies and conspiracy theories.

    "Early 20th-century occult societies sometimes referenced vril as a hidden cosmic power accessible through meditation."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1871 science fiction novel 'The Coming Race', the term is derived from an invented root resembling the Latin 'virile', meaning force or power. Over time, it transitioned from a literary concept of a latent universal energy into various esoteric and fringe occult traditions.

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