Citations:lachesism

English citations of lachesism

Noun: "(neologism, rare) the yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster"

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• 2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 110:

  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, […]

• 2017, Usha Meenakshi, Chai and Biscuits with 1001 Haikus, unnumbered page:

  Lachesism* struck;

  He vaulted across buildings;

  He lived. Just a dream.

• 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, unnumbered page:

  "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.

• 2021, "Sketching", The Designing Linguist, Issue #1 (2021), page 5:

  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.

• 2021, Engin Yurt, "Hermetic Becomings", in From Phenomenon Labyrinths to Midnights of Zugzwangs: Or Missing Apparitions in Yūgen Recordings, page 80:

  While dancing in lonely places,

  Out-of-body experiences talk in hyperbole.

  A likeable lachesism,

  you say just another conversation in a dead one's house, they say.

• 2022, Anchal Priyadarshini, Void in My Heart, page 108:

  A lachesism climbed up inside me like a creepy creeper. I pretended to be okay, but for real I was barely surviving. I was pathetic, seeking attention, living for others and the worst, hating myself.

• 2023, Keshav Sadashiv Sapru, The Numismatics of Transfinite Jurisprudence, page 48:

  While such predictions of collapse or severe limitations, may either fill us with despair, fear and/or anxiety or Lachesism (the desire for longing for the clarity which arrives with disaster).