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What Is The Origin Of The Term "Nymphomaniac"

The Gory Meaning Behind The Word "Sarcophagus"

3 Tips For Using "Have" vs. "Has" Correctly

Why Dictionary.com Chose This Word To Describe 2020

What Is The Real Difference Between "Empathy" And "Sympathy"?

Did You Know These Phrases Are Actually Repetitive?

Where Does The Phrase "Thoughts And Prayers" Come From?

Why Do We Say "Trick Or Treat" On Halloween?

How Did April Reign Create The Hashtag #OscarsSoWhite?

Screen #1: Have you ever had someone tell you to “find your niche”? [say nich]
Screen #2: A niche is (definition screen format):
[noun] a place or position suitable or appropriate for a person or thing.
[adjective] pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal.
Screen #3: But should it actually be pronounced as [nich]? If so, why do so many people say [neesh]?
Screen #4: Niche is borrowed directly from the French. It actually comes from the word nicher meaning “to make a nest.”
Screen #5: Both pronunciations: [nich] and [neesh] are common in American and British English.
Screen #6: The pronunciation of [neesh] preserves the pronunciation of the word in French. While the pronunciation of [ nich ] is more Anglicized—that is, more in line with native English sounds.
Screen #7: Dictionaries generally give [nich] as the typical pronunciation, but the alternative [neesh] may be gaining ground.
Screen #8: Some people may even use both, depending on context.
Screen #9: So what is the correct way to pronounce niche ?
Screen #10: There isn’t one! Pick your favorite or play around with pronunciation.
Screen #11: Sometimes we can have fun with the English language!
1. harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
2. the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another, especially in sorrow or trouble; fellow feeling, compassion, or commiseration.
Screen 5: In other words, sympathy is when you feel bad for another person … but you don’t know what it is like to be in their shoes.
Screen 6: Empathy entered English a few centuries after sympathy —in the late 1800s.
Screen 7: Psychologists began using empathy as a translation for the German term Einfühlung and the concept that a person could project their own feelings onto an object.
Screen 8: Empathy means (definition screen layout):
the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.
Screen 9: In other words, empathy is the ability to imagine oneself in the situation of another, experiencing the emotions, ideas, or opinions of that person.

What Is The Origin Of The Term "Nymphomaniac"

The Gory Meaning Behind The Word "Sarcophagus"

3 Tips For Using "Have" vs. "Has" Correctly

Why Dictionary.com Chose This Word To Describe 2020

What Is The Real Difference Between "Empathy" And "Sympathy"?

Did You Know These Phrases Are Actually Repetitive?

Where Does The Phrase "Thoughts And Prayers" Come From?

Why Do We Say "Trick Or Treat" On Halloween?

How Did April Reign Create The Hashtag #OscarsSoWhite?

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Why Is The Word "Promiscuous" Mostly Used For Women?

The Gory Meaning Behind The Word "Sarcophagus"

3 Tips For Using "Have" vs. "Has" Correctly

Why Dictionary.com Chose This Word To Describe 2020

What Is The Real Difference Between "Empathy" And "Sympathy"?

Did You Know These Phrases Are Actually Repetitive?

Where Does The Phrase "Thoughts And Prayers" Come From?

Why Do We Say "Trick Or Treat" On Halloween?

How Did April Reign Create The Hashtag #OscarsSoWhite?

Screen #1: Have you ever had someone tell you to “find your niche”? [say nich]
Screen #2: A niche is (definition screen format):
[noun] a place or position suitable or appropriate for a person or thing.
[adjective] pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal.
Screen #3: But should it actually be pronounced as [nich]? If so, why do so many people say [neesh]?
Screen #4: Niche is borrowed directly from the French. It actually comes from the word nicher meaning “to make a nest.”
Screen #5: Both pronunciations: [nich] and [neesh] are common in American and British English.
Screen #6: The pronunciation of [neesh] preserves the pronunciation of the word in French. While the pronunciation of [ nich ] is more Anglicized—that is, more in line with native English sounds.
Screen #7: Dictionaries generally give [nich] as the typical pronunciation, but the alternative [neesh] may be gaining ground.
Screen #8: Some people may even use both, depending on context.
Screen #9: So what is the correct way to pronounce niche ?
Screen #10: There isn’t one! Pick your favorite or play around with pronunciation.
Screen #11: Sometimes we can have fun with the English language!
1. harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
2. the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another, especially in sorrow or trouble; fellow feeling, compassion, or commiseration.
Screen 5: In other words, sympathy is when you feel bad for another person … but you don’t know what it is like to be in their shoes.
Screen 6: Empathy entered English a few centuries after sympathy —in the late 1800s.
Screen 7: Psychologists began using empathy as a translation for the German term Einfühlung and the concept that a person could project their own feelings onto an object.
Screen 8: Empathy means (definition screen layout):
the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.
Screen 9: In other words, empathy is the ability to imagine oneself in the situation of another, experiencing the emotions, ideas, or opinions of that person.

Why Is The Word "Promiscuous" Mostly Used For Women?

The Gory Meaning Behind The Word "Sarcophagus"

3 Tips For Using "Have" vs. "Has" Correctly

Why Dictionary.com Chose This Word To Describe 2020

What Is The Real Difference Between "Empathy" And "Sympathy"?

Did You Know These Phrases Are Actually Repetitive?

Where Does The Phrase "Thoughts And Prayers" Come From?

Why Do We Say "Trick Or Treat" On Halloween?

How Did April Reign Create The Hashtag #OscarsSoWhite?

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It takes two people to have an affair. Despite this fact, there is a clear disparity in the way the public generally discusses extramarital relationships. Heterosexual men who have affairs are just heterosexual men who had affairs. But, the women with whom they have those affairs quickly get labeled with another term, one for which there is no effective male equivalent in English: mistress .
As Kelly McBride observed for the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the word mistress made prominent appearances in early 2019 thanks to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s alleged affair with anchor and actor Lauren Sanchez—or his mistress , as many headlines dubbed her. Another notable so-called mistress was Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López , lover of Joaquín Guzmán, the drug lord better known as El Chapo.
What does the word mistress imply about women, and why is it problematic?
Mistress is recorded in English around the 1300s, when it originally referred to “a woman who has authority, control, or power, especially the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment.” Think the headmistress of a school.
The word ultimately comes from a French female form of maistre , meaning “master.” The title Mrs . is an abbreviation of mistress , first recorded in the early 17th century, as mistress was used as a respectful term of address for a married woman.
By the mid-1400s, mistress was naming a “woman who has a continuing, extramarital sexual relationship with one man, especially a man who, in return for an exclusive and continuing liaison, provides her with financial support.” Over time, mistress narrowed to this sense—a word with no real male counterpart, perhaps ironically for a word that began as one.
Referring to someone as a mistress may seem more acceptable if there were a similar term we could apply to men, but there isn’t quite one.
Lover can apply to all genders, as does the more stilted- or literary-sounding paramour . For these reasons, many see the word mistress as outdated, sexist, and moralizing.
In the wake of the February 2019 reporting of Sanchez as Bezos’s mistress, journalist Emily Peck wrote a piece for HuffPost titled “ Mistress Is A Sexist Word. Stop Using It. The End. ” She argues: “It’s a loaded term, meant to suggest that a woman is subordinate to the man with whom she’s having a relationship. The word also implies that her behavior is immoral.”
To use mistress to describe Lauren Sanchez can seem to imply that she is responsible for the affair, while Bezos’s behavior is more accepted or even overlooked entirely. Last year, amid debate over the word, the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook advised journalists to use mistress only in circumstances in which an affair took place over a long period of time and involved financial support. However, the AP also advised that, whenever possible, “phrasing that acknowledges both people in the relationship is preferred: ‘The two were romantically (or sexually) involved.'” At the time, this phrasing suggested mistress had evolved as a more general term for a married man’s girlfriend.
The AP has now amended its stance and advised journalists to avoid the term altogether: “We now say not to use the archaic and sexist term ‘mistress’ for a woman in a long-term sexual relationship with, and financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion or lover on first reference. Provide details later.”
The problem with mistress , for many, is its implications regardless of intent. Mistress , they argue, almost always labels a woman as an outsider, a seductress , a threat. Mistress paints women as being solely responsible for the transgression of having an affair while also framing them as submissive to the wills of their male lover. The word seems to allow men to retain power even in a situation in which they are also culpable .
Warning: There is some strong language featured in this section. There are a number of words in the English language used to describe women, particularly when it comes to sex and relationships, that don’t have a male equivalent.
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Nymphomanic comes from the Ancient Greek creatures, nymphs.
Nymphs were natural spirits that liked to hang around in the water or woods … and they were super, super horny.
They even had a habit of chasing after guys who visited the woods in order to get their sexual fill.
One of the juicier nymph-based stories has to do with the water nymph, Salmacis, who wanted the handsome hero Hermaphoditus so bad she physically merged her body with his.
Yup, that’s right—Hermaphoditus became half man, half woman because a water nymphomaniac just needed to get laid.
She even created the term hermaphrodite in the process.
But, you’re on the definition page for nymphomaniac …
So, nymphomaniac is a sex-obsessed woman, got it. However, fellas, there is a term out there for you too: satyriasis .
See, satyrs were also particularly lustful creatures of Greek mythology who were men with the physical characteristics of a goat or of a horse.
These guys had a sex drive so high they had a penchant for getting caught in situations involving attempted rape A LOT, and the gods weren’t too happy about it.
Uh, neither are we … not acceptable now, not acceptable then.
Well, if we learned nothing else today … we’re now certain the Ancient Greeks were a pretty kinky bunch.
Screen #1: Sarcophagus may be one of those words you learned in a museum or history class and never thought about again.
Screen #2: But the origin of the word sarcophagus is so fittingly odd and gross, we had to share it.
Screen #3: First, a sarcophagus is (definition screen format):
a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
Screen #4: Remember King Tut? Yup, he was buried in a sarcophagus .
Screen #5: Sarcophagus is pronounced like this: (voice-over saying word).
Screen #6: OK, enough of the basics—let’s explore where this historical word came from.
Screen #7: The word sarcophagus comes from a Greek word meaning “flesh-consuming.”
Screen #8: The Greeks believed there was a kind of stone thought to consume the flesh of corpses, and so it was used for coffins.
Screen #9: So sarcophagus not only describes the coffin but also the stone used for the coffins.
Screen #10: So, for the ancients, not only did the coffins provide a resting place for the dead, they also were thought to eat up the corpses with their flesh-consuming stone.
Screen 1: Do you know how to use have and has correctly?
Screen 2: Have and has are both forms of the verb to have. To have primarily means “to possess, own, hold for use, or contain.” (definition screen layout)
Screen 3: Tip #1: If you’re speaking in the first person, use have.
Screen 4: Have is the conjugation of to have that’s used when:
Screen 5: Tip #2: Has is the conjugation of to have that’s used when:
Screen 6: Tip #3: Have or has can be used with the past participle form of another verb to create the present perfect tense.
Screen 7: So what is the present perfect tense?
Screen 8: The present perfect tense is used to show that the action of the verb was completed previously (not in the present).
Screen 9: The same rules apply as before.
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The pandemic changed the dictionary …
Dictionary.com saw many trends in 2020 …
and the pandemic shaped them all in some way.
These words were all top searches by you on Dictionary.com this year,
yet the one thing that ties them together is the …
Pandemic is Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year for 2020.
The word pandemic ultimately comes from the Greek pân , “all,” and dêmos , “people”—all people
Without a doubt, the pandemic affected all people, all over the world.
And the many ways the pandemic runs through the events and terms of 2020 …
only reinforced our decision to name pandemic our 2020 Word of the Year.
The pandemic has wreaked social and economic disruption on a historic scale and scope.
All other events for most of 2020, from the protests for racial justice to a heated presidential election, were shaped by the pandemic .
Despite its hardships, the pandemic inspired the best of our humanity: resilience and resourcefulness in the face of struggle.
The pandemic has made us acquire and invent new words to understand the world.
And the team at Dictionary.com will be here alongside you for it all …
continuing to document, explain, and share the words that are helping us make sense of our new reality.
Dictionary.com is passionate about our role in giving you the information you need about changing words—in a changing world.
Screen 1: Where did the seven deadly sins come from … and what do they mean?
Screen 2: Long ago, like really long ago, in the late 6th century, Pope Gregory I first listed the seven deadly sins .
Screen 3: For his list, Pope Gregory drew from the ideas of Evagrius Ponticus, a 4th century Christian monk who identified eight evils humans should resist.
Screen 4: In the 13th century, Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas further wrote about the seven deadly sins , which he called “capital vices.”
Screen 5: Capital comes from the Latin caput , “head.”
Screen 6: As you can tell, he believed the seven deadly sins were the cause of all other offenses.
Screen 7: About a century after Aquinas, capital began to mean “deadly” in English … and that’s how the capital vices became the deadly sins for good.
Screen 8: So what are the seven deadly sins ?
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