includence
Meanings
noun
- The withdrawal of a person within a routine that they cannot escape, a forerunner of pathological melancholia.
Word forms
Etymology
From German Inkludenz, a 1960s neologism coined by Hubertus Tellenbach, derived from Latin inclūdō (“confine, imprison”).
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