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wife acceptance factor

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English

Syllables
wife ac-cep-tance -fac-tor
IPA
39
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An assessment of the visual design elements of a consumer product (e.g. a home music system).

Informal

Etymology

* First used by Larry Greenhill in September 1983, writing for Stereophile magazine, but Greenhill credited fellow reviewer and music professor Lewis Lipnick with coining the term. * The implication is that men tend to appreciate the performance of a product whereas women focus on aesthetics.

Usage

Synonyms

WAF

Questions

What does wife acceptance factor mean?
An assessment of the visual design elements of a consumer product (e.g. a home music system).
Where does wife acceptance factor come from?
* First used by Larry Greenhill in September 1983, writing for Stereophile magazine, but Greenhill credited fellow reviewer and music professor Lewis Lipnick with coining the term. * The implication is that men tend to appreciate the performance of a product whereas women focus on aesthetics.

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