lachesismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈlækəˌsɪzəm/

名詞

lachesism (uncountable)

1. (neologism, rare) The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.
   • 2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 110:

     I'd always been fascinated by lightning and had always had an unexplainable lachesism. I'm not sure why I had this desire to be struck by disaster and survive, to be struck by lightning in fact, […]

   • 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, unnumbered page:

     "What if I become just another flower on the side of the road?" I looked to him, shaking uncontrollably yet strangely calmed by an underlying sense of lachesism.

   • 2021, "Sketching", The Designing Linguist, Issue #1 (2021), page 5:

     In that sense, we can probably say that the Covid-19 pandemic, which put the world on hold for over a year, satisfied our collective lachesism.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lachesism.

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