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climate grief

noun

Etymology

Blend of climate change + grief.

  1. derived from gravis
  2. derived from grief
  3. inherited from greef
  4. compounded as climate grief — “climate change + grief”

Definitions

  1. Grief caused by fear of climate change.

    • Although it is not an official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon: “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.”
    • I’ve guided workshops and given dozens of public lectures, especially in Finland, my home country. And I’ve met a lot of people with climate grief and eco-anxiety.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for climate grief. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA