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sharity

name

Etymology

Originally a brand name for a product, possibly a Blend of share + charity + rarity.

  1. derived from rāritās
  2. borrowed from rarité
  3. compounded as sharity — “share + charity + rarity”

Definitions

  1. A file-hosting and storage service for users to upload and share videos, music, software,…

    A file-hosting and storage service for users to upload and share videos, music, software, and other content for others to use.

    • A way around the lock-up problem of smbfs is to use sharity.
    • But with the advent of sharity that's shifted to: 'I've just got hold of something no one else has got, so I'm immediately going to make it available to EVERYBODY.'
    • According to Eric Lumbleau, creator of the music blog Mutant Sounds, the motivation behind sharity is a form of "self-aggrandizing altruism...blog authors anointing themselves as gurus and presiding over their own little kingdom of cool."

The neighborhood

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