Meaning of lachesism | Babel Free

Definitions

The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.

neologism, rare, uncountable

Examples

“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, […]”

“"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.”

“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.”

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