Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lachesism

/ˈlækəˌsɪzəm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lach-esism
IPA: /ˈlækəˌsɪzəm/

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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, […]"
""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."
"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."

Etymology

From Lachesis + -ism; coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, with reference to the Ancient Greek goddess Lachesis, the Fate responsible for allotting the span of each mortal's life.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: -
Suffix: Lachesis

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

How do you pronounce lachesism?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈlækəˌsɪzəm/.
What does lachesism mean?: The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.
Where does lachesism come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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