Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

salonfähig

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sa-lon-fahig
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Acceptable for polite society.

Example Sentences

"Wits and miniaturists have applied their talents to rendering languages, perhaps more crucially now as direct ethnic derogation is no longer salonfähig."
"Since the Holocaust, fantasies of Jewish power are no longer Salonfähig, no longer openly expressible in “polite” society—at least in Western Europe and North America—even if continuities also persist in antisemitic thinking as do traumatic aftereffects for Jews around the world."

Etymology

Borrowed from German salonfähig.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: salonfähig

Questions

What does salonfähig mean?: Acceptable for polite society.
Where does salonfähig come from?: It is traced to German.

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