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crisitunity

noun

Etymology

Blend of crisis + opportunity; introduced as a gag in the animated television series The Simpsons (season 6, episode 11, "Fear of Flying", first broadcast on 18 December 1994): * LISA: Look on the bright side, Dad. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity"? * HOMER: Yes. "Crisitunity"! You're right.

  1. derived from opportunus
  2. derived from opportun
  3. formed as opportunity — “opportune + -ity”
  4. compounded as crisitunity — “crisis + opportunity”

Definitions

  1. A crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an…

    A crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an opportunity.

    • Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?
    • On lost crisitunities, vanishing post-Soviet and decolonization of thinking, being and perception.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crisitunity. 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