Talk:gediegan
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I thought it was more halfway between "thriving" than "enduring", that it means something like "doing well through adversity": Enduring is just hanging on (without necessarily doing well, thriving), thriving means flourishing (without necessarily facing adversity). I can be wrong, picking it up from someone misusing it.
It also seems cognate with (modern-but-oldfashioned) Dutch "gedijen", which means thriving (without any implied hardship) in the context of reproduction --- not so much "doing well at work/hobby/...", but "the garden" under a given regime or "aquarium fishes" on a given diet and setup.86.18.215.73 11:17, 30 June 2017 (UTC)