telos
(en)
(noun) an ultimate end (from Greek)
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the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne
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the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne
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turbid
(en)
(adjective) thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment / (adjective) heavy with smoke or mist / (adjective) deficient in clarity or purity; foul muddy / (adjective) characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions)
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I filled up the skin with someone turbid water
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I filled up the skin with someone turbid water
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interstice
(en)
(noun) an intervening space
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However continually he was suffering in his last summer, there was still plenty of time, in the interstices between his identically painful thoughts, to entertain the idea of suicide
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However continually he was suffering in his last summer, there was still plenty of time, in the interstices between his identically painful thoughts, to entertain the idea of suicide
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teleological
(en)
the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion
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if the phenomenology and the teleology of suicidality are the same as that of addiction, it seems fair to say that David died of boredom
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if the phenomenology and the teleology of suicidality are the same as that of addiction, it seems fair to say that David died of boredom
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vertiginous
(en)
causing vertigo, especially by being extremely high or steep
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The vertiginous point where I turned back in the rain
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The vertiginous point where I turned back in the rain
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inveigh
(en)
(verb) to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently; rail
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inveighed against "the Turk" and his "Maltese lackeys"
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inveighed against "the Turk" and his "Maltese lackeys"
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divot
(en)
(noun) a square of turf or sod
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The roads were modern but heavily divoted, as if it were understood that they would all be torn up again soon anyway.
on Shanghai
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The roads were modern but heavily divoted, as if it were understood that they would all be torn up again soon anyway.
on Shanghai
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montane
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, growing in, or being the biogeographic zone of relatively moist cool upland slopes below timberline dominated by large coniferous trees / (adjective) of, relating to, or made up of montane plants or animals
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nestled between a stricly protected montane forest and the bright-blue freshwater expanses of Dong Qian Hu
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nestled between a stricly protected montane forest and the bright-blue freshwater expanses of Dong Qian Hu
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Gemütlichkeit
(de)
comfort, coziness (like the Danish hygge)
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he instills these locales with a weird kind of Gemütlichkeit.
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he instills these locales with a weird kind of Gemütlichkeit.
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anomie
(en)
lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide
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With three kids to support, he dare not venture down the road of anomie and irony and entropy, the Beat road that Kerouac blazed and Pynchon followed.
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With three kids to support, he dare not venture down the road of anomie and irony and entropy, the Beat road that Kerouac blazed and Pynchon followed.
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