Meaning of finifugal | Babel Free

Definitions

Averse to something ending (e.g. a TV series) out of a desire for it to continue on forever.

rare

Examples

“[…] he could hardly remember an instance in which a classical writer referred to the setting sun; the fact was, that they disliked the idea of sunset, and recoiled from the end of everything. Whether he was right—nay, whether he was quite serious in this opinion I am not certain. In modern as well as in ancient times, the finifugal tendency, as we may call it, is apparent.”

“I am feeling finifugal, and I have to say goodbye to my dictionaries.”

“I want my macaroni and cheese, and to eat it too... I think I'm finifugal. I hope it's not terminal.”

“Does it matter the meter’s ticking faster? That meter and measure are one; meter and moon and mensesare one; meter and month and meal do the same work, measuring time?And we’re back to shunning the end of anything: finifugal.”

“Dent is an etymologist and infuses the characters in this clever debut mystery with her passion for language, beginning each chapter with a dictionary definition of an obscure word, and leaving the reader feeling a bit finifugal on the final page, not wanting the book to end.”

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