permacession
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Vibes are temporary, and whatever this is isn’t going away. It's a "permacession." People have stopped believing that the economy can be good, and have lost the willingness to admit that they are doing well. That pessimism might be harder to fix than an actual downturn."
- "Democrats need to prepare right now for this political reality—and if and when they retake power, they need to have a plan to deal with what [Annie] Lowery calls the "permacession.""
- "The vibecession is back, or never really went away, or is now a "permacession." Or so we're told. But here's a novel thought: What if it's not just vibes?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per- Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *m̥néh₁yeti Proto-Italic *m(V)nēō Latin maneō Latin permaneōlbor. Middle French permanentbor. English permanentclip. English perma- English depression blend English permacession Blend of perma- + depression. Coined by American journalist Annie Lowrey (see quotation below).
Inflected Forms
permacessions (plural)