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viewquake

noun
/ˈvjuːkweɪk/

Etymology

From view + quake, modelled after earthquake. Coined by American economist Robin Hanson.

  1. inherited from *kwakōną✻ — “to shake, quiver, tremble”
  2. inherited from cwacian — “to quake, tremble, chatter”
  3. inherited from quaken
  4. compounded as viewquake — “view + quake”

Definitions

  1. A sudden drastic shift in someone's view on the world or a particular subject.

    • The section raises more questions than it answers. Most of all, [Allan H.] Meltzer never lets on that the crisis caused a “viewquake” within both monetarism and minimalist approaches to bank supervision.
    • He [Richard Meadows] points out that for $10 you can get a book that may be terrible, and that you stop reading it. Or you could find one that puts ideas in front of you that you'd never considered before, leading to a 'viewquake'.

The neighborhood

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