Lachesism

Quick meaning: Lachesism is a noun meaning (neologism, rare) The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.

Meaning

(neologism, rare) The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.

Example Sentences

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.

"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.

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, […]

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