Meaning of zenosyne | Babel Free

Definitions

The sense that time keeps going faster.

neologism, uncountable

Examples

“This is the obscurest of the sorrows, / Though some say it’s entirely an illusion, / That time must be a constant (our tomorrows / Arriving by the clock, and in profusion), / That time is bound to pay back what it borrows, / Adjusting fast with slow, and in conclusion / We should take heart, adjust our hopes, and be / Prepared to understand zenosyne.”

“These little hands / On my clock tile, stagnant, / Stare back at me / Aimlessly. / You come around / All in a frenzy then. / They rush into a zenosyne / Tirelessly.”

“The phenomenon of zenosyne has caused me to make some unconventional yes decisions. When my children were babies, I looked forward to a nightly break from parenting and spending time teaching classes with my students. But as my children grew, I understood that I was exchanging the decreasing amount of time I had to raise my own kids for spending my evenings making memories with other people’s children. At the height of my teaching career, zenosyne caused me rethink the hours I was spending in the studio.”

“As we get older, we experience zenosyne, the feeling that time keeps getting faster and faster. It is a built-in mechanism to remind us that wisdom comes from learning how to appreciate time and to live in the moment.”

“I went to the podium and took a sip of the water kept on its shelf. That podium looked used and old. Aunt Leela looked at me and I got the sense that she had been thinking about it, as if it was a kind of reminder of something. She must have experienced Zenosyne as I saw lot^([sic – meaning a lot]) of emotions came over her face. She felt lost somewhere deep in her thoughts.”

“Part II: Rare Emotions / 31. Sonder / 32. Zenosyne […] You may have experienced those. But you may not know. You may have wondered about their strange flow. But you may not know. Let’s know them now. Let’s start the emotional journey now. Let’s break free and dive deep into the heart. […] Zenosyne: Time keeps going faster / It’s when I feel that time is running faster than my thoughts. It’s when I want to be a kid and time takes me away to adulthood. And this story continues lifelong.”

“Over a lifetime it is inevitable that the older you become the less novelty you will encounter and the more habit you will embrace. This is fundamental to the perceived acceleration of time (zenosyne). It follows from this that the intentional introduction of novel episodes at purposely chosen intervals will decelerate time and will extend your life experience, at least retrospectively. Try it.”

“[…] That was our playground, / From hockey to football, what was not played, / The Redstone sit outs from older times, were split between kids to play and to hide, / Those were the places where dolls were married, / My hiraeth to my grandmom's house is strange, / After all these years it still stays / Beyond the zenosyne and growing age.”

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