marasme
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μαρασμός (marasmós).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marasme m (plural marasmes)
- (politics, economics) stagnation, the doldrums
- 2021, Estelle Brun, “Les ponts”, in Avigon d'antan, Hervé Chopin, →ISBN, page 96:
- Les maires bâtisseurs comprennent qu'Avignon, en renouant avec sa vocation de ville-pont, a des chances d'échapper au marasme ambiant.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “marasme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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