Contextualizebeta

degrowther

noun

Etymology

From degrowth + -er.

  1. derived from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow, become green”
  2. inherited from *grōaną✻ — “to grow, grow green”
  3. inherited from *grōan✻
  4. inherited from grōwan — “to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”
  5. inherited from growen
  6. suffixed as growth — “grow + th”
  7. prefixed as degrowth — “de + growth”
  8. formed as degrowther — “degrowth + -er”

Definitions

  1. A proponent of the degrowth movement.

    • Degrowthers insist that we must find ways of living and working that do not require our economies to endlessly expand.
    • In the view of degrowthers, humanity simply does not have the capacity to phase out fossil fuels and meet the ever-growing demand of rich economies.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for degrowther. 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