27 February 2006
NEWS: New Words for The Modern Condition
Dateline: Super Secret Word Lab
New Word: Antisane
Type: Noun, Adjective
Definition: Antisane is to be distinguished from insane. Insane is the process of losing one's sanity. Sanity, the condition of being sane, is a term defining an accepted standard of health. Insane people are considered to have fallen below this standard.
Those who can be labeled antisane critically never had any sanity to lose. In fact they stand in direct opposition to sanity. Hence, anti (against) sane (health).
The antisane are firmly committed to irrationality. They are constrained by neither fact nor reality. So infused are they by illusion that they typically manifest contentment and lead efficacious lives.
As might be expected, the antisane are either our best friends or worst enemies.
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New Word: Antisane
Type: Noun, Adjective
Definition: Antisane is to be distinguished from insane. Insane is the process of losing one's sanity. Sanity, the condition of being sane, is a term defining an accepted standard of health. Insane people are considered to have fallen below this standard.
Those who can be labeled antisane critically never had any sanity to lose. In fact they stand in direct opposition to sanity. Hence, anti (against) sane (health).
The antisane are firmly committed to irrationality. They are constrained by neither fact nor reality. So infused are they by illusion that they typically manifest contentment and lead efficacious lives.
As might be expected, the antisane are either our best friends or worst enemies.
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