Tag: Arthur Koestler

‘eureka moment’: meaning and origin

.Reading time 9 minutes.

a moment of sudden discovery, inspiration or insight—1918—from the reputed exclamation of Archimedes when he realised that the volume of a solid could be calculated by measuring the water displaced when it was immersed

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‘femiphobia’ & ‘feminophobia’: meaning and origin

.Reading time 14 minutes.

‘femiphobia’ (USA) 1907—‘feminophobia’ (UK) 1914—an irrational fear or dislike of women—from Latin ‘fēmina’ (woman) and combining form ‘-phobia’—probably each coined on various occasions by different persons, independently from each other

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