English Explanatory Dictionary

zenosyne

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The sense that time keeps going faster.

Pronunciation

/zɛˈnɒs.ən.i/ /zɛˈnɑs.ən.i/

Word forms

zenosyne

Etymology

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows; a blend of Zeno (“the name of ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, in reference to Zeno’s dichotomy paradox, which ‘asks how a person can walk from one point to another if they must first cross a seeming infinity of halfway points, which makes their journey look like a series of ever-shrinking steps’”) + Mnemosyne (“the personification of memory in ancient Greek mythology”).

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