This week’s theme
Illustrated words

This week’s words
fulgor
inquiline
jouissance
worricow
hyaloid

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ZHWEE-sans)

MEANING:

noun: Pleasure; ecstasy.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French jouissance, from jouir (to enjoy). Earliest documented use: 1484.

USAGE:

“Artists were allowed, indeed encouraged, to lead more libidinous lives on behalf of others who had, of necessity, to leave their jouissance at the door while they worked.”
Hanif Kureishi; The Last Word; Scribner; 2015.

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