Susitude
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Susitude by SususAmogus October 31, 2021
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SUBSITUDE
🔹 Word: Subsitude
🔸 Part of Speech: Noun
🔸 Definition:
The state or condition of a person who is shaped, limited, or controlled by their external circumstances — living reactively rather than by their own autonomous will.
In short: When life happens to you, not by you.
🔸 Example Sentences:
• “After years stuck in the same job and town, I realized I wasn’t living — I was just surviving in subsitude.”
• “Society praises freedom, but most of us live quietly in subsitude, ruled by forces we never chose.”
• “He mistook comfort for freedom, not realizing he had settled into subsitude.”
🔸 Origin:
Coined in 2025. Formed from sub- (under) and -tude (a state or condition), following the structure of words like attitude and servitude. FJC
🔸 Tags:
existentialism, philosophy, self-awareness, agency, determinism, oppression, emotional states, coined words
🔸 Part of Speech: Noun
🔸 Definition:
The state or condition of a person who is shaped, limited, or controlled by their external circumstances — living reactively rather than by their own autonomous will.
In short: When life happens to you, not by you.
🔸 Example Sentences:
• “After years stuck in the same job and town, I realized I wasn’t living — I was just surviving in subsitude.”
• “Society praises freedom, but most of us live quietly in subsitude, ruled by forces we never chose.”
• “He mistook comfort for freedom, not realizing he had settled into subsitude.”
🔸 Origin:
Coined in 2025. Formed from sub- (under) and -tude (a state or condition), following the structure of words like attitude and servitude. FJC
🔸 Tags:
existentialism, philosophy, self-awareness, agency, determinism, oppression, emotional states, coined words
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)