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[paul-s.livejournal.com]

What does одиноликий mean?

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[krasem.livejournal.com]

there is no word одиноликий in russian

[orphanka.livejournal.com]

Apparently this is a typo.

[paul-s.livejournal.com]

Well I saw it in a Russian article, one by a woman moaning about the poor standard of modern Russian no less.

[isca-lox.livejournal.com]

Well, it's either a typo or it means Odin-faced, which I don't think is very likely :^=))

[paul-s.livejournal.com]

That'll be the one then, thanks.

[isca-lox.livejournal.com]

It's probably одноликий... onefaced (as opposed to multifaced.... is there such a word in English, onefaced?)

[shalapanova.livejournal.com]

There is no world "одиноликий" in Russian.

It might be "одинокий", that means alone.
Or "одноликий" - having one face, opposite to "двуликий" - having two faces (often used to describe ancient god Janus).

[paul-s.livejournal.com]

Ooops, yes. I'd made a typo not the article. I think in English we'd say one-dimensional.

[just1user.livejournal.com]

May be it is "undistinguished", if used in context like "толпа одноликих людей"

[paul-s.livejournal.com]

That would be possible I think. It's talking about language and how it's become 'irritably one-dimensional'.

[loki-fledermaus.livejournal.com]

I wish it had been "Odin-faced"

[good-chaotic.livejournal.com]

Russian Explanatory:
Одноликий - такой, у которого похожее с кем-либо лицо (similar person).

[unique-clone.livejournal.com]

According to www.freetranslation.com Одноликий means 'identical'.

Synonyms:
тождественный
одинаковый

[oryx_and_crake]

I cannot say it is widely used

[oryx_and_crake]

does not sound very Russian to me (one can understand its meaning but it still sounds strange)

[unique-clone.livejournal.com]

I admit, I was unable to find it in every other online & hard-copy dictionary I searched.

[oryx_and_crake]

Maybe, but it still does not sound very Russian to me. Possibly the word was invented (or extracted from some dusty dictionary) by the article's author in order to have her language as quaint and idiosyncratic as possible, to distinguish her from the "unwashed masses". If I were writing the article, I would use безликий, одинаковый, штампованный, стандартный, стертый etc.

[tevar.livejournal.com]

Возможно, подразумевалось слово "одноликий" - практически одинаковый, "на одно лицо", либо могло использоваться слово "одинокий" - тут комментарии не нужны.