occhiolism
n. the awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn’t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.
Credits: Word Definition -John Koenig: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Photography: Rona Keller
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Occhiolic is going to be my word of the day. I don’t even know how to pronounce it.
Neither do it. In fact, I didn’t try until you mentioned it, and then embarrassed myself.
Really great stuff!! Love it. 🙂
Thank you!
🙂
‘although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one’
perfect quote.
A word I never knew.
Yes, among 40,000 others that I don’t know either.
what?
LAUGHING
Interesting….. I never heard of the word before. I should of checked with the folks in the next room.
Walking to the next room. The sample is one word wiser.
Smiling.
It’s that last phrase that saves. Being the control means you are the ONE everyone else is measured against. That can’t be all that bad….can it?
No, it can’t. It’s not.
me, too, également… c’est grave, Docteur DK?!… 🙂 P.S. “occhi” = eyes in Italian and in Romanian… 😉
Shameful, I took 4 years of French, no nothing. Beautiful language and words. Had to use Google Translate. Me too friend. Me too!
If the eyes are the mirror of the soul, we’re drawing conclusions all the time. Or is it windows?
I had to think about this awhile. And I’m still thinking…
It’s so so beautiful… the word and it’s meaning. One would look so eloquent if they use this word in a phrase. I loved it. It’s beautiful.
It is. Wonderful how certain words do that to us. I find French language to have similar impact on me.
Definitely needs to be an argument for debate relating to the ‘other points of view’ and how that would affect the world they live in! In other words, well – I quite like having it all! One would say…Selfish then!
agree!!!!