This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
whatness
fleshment
pejorism
uniquity
whereness

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(PEJ-uh-riz-uhm)

MEANING:

noun: The belief that the world is becoming worse.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin peior (worse). Earliest documented use: 1879. One holding such a belief is a pejorist.

USAGE:

“It is pejorism in this sense that Housman conveys:
‘the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill’”
E.E. Sheng; Housman’s Compassionate Didactic; Victorian Poetry (Morgantown, West Virginia); Winter 2020.

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