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/ˈlækəˌsɪzəm/ · noun
(neologism, rare) The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster..
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.
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.
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Lachesism means (neologism, rare) The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster..
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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.
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