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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--nirvana This week's theme: loanwords from Sanskrit. nirvana (nir-VAH-nuh) noun 1. Freedom from the endless cycle of birth and death and related suffering. 2. An idealized state or place free of pain, worries, etc. [From Sanskrit nirvana (blowing out, extinguishing, extinction), from nis- (out) + vati (it blows). Ultimately from Indo-European root we- (to blow) that is also the source of wind, weather, ventilate, window and wing.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "'Hawaii looks like nirvana' compared to the rest of the country, said Emily Friedman, a Chicago-based health policy analyst who authored a history on the island health care system." Matt Sedensky; Hawaii's Uninsured Population; Star Bulletin (Honolulu, Hawaii); Oct 22, 2003. X-Bonus Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

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