miasma
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- noun
- /miˈæzmə/
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miasma
- Put bluntly, the miasma of nationalism requires a thoroughgoing critique of the broader culture from whence it emanates.
This is a guy who has a vocabulary to express this miasma that I feel.
- This is a guy who has a vocabulary to express this miasma that I feel.
Examples
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The city was filled with a miasma of pollution that made it difficult to breathe.
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Drought has settled like a miasma over the Horn of Africa, affecting most of eastern Kenya and reaching into the Masai Mara National Reserve.
Academic text (2011) -
This is a guy who has a vocabulary to express this miasma that I feel.
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We've talked about miasma and its long history in European thought.
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Of far greater consequence for Nightingale was the appropriate action to tackle the underlying causes of miasma.
Academic text (2007) -
I should be falling asleep in the grass, exhausted beyond all thought, with only the miasma of contentedness floating through my mind.
Fiction book (2001) -
What started as a joyful gathering of photographers has now deteriorated, like U.S. politics, into a miasma of money-making mayhem.
Blog text (24) -
A miasma of plague hangs around Shakespeare's dramatic corpus, and Othello is a topical response to its occasional outbreak in 1603.
Academic text (2017) -
After the scandal broke, a miasma of distrust spread through the community.
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Walking through the abandoned building, she could feel the miasma of decay and neglect.
Synonyms
A bad, unhealthy air that makes people feel sick
Antonyms
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Miasma comes from an old Greek word miasma meaning 'stain' or 'pollution'. That image of a spreading 'pollution' in the air helps explain why miasma is also used for a bad atmosphere or influence, like fear or suspicion that seems to spread.