• @swlabr
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    810 months ago

    In that sense, as with sewer diving, there’s a sweet spot of anosmia.

    • David GerardOPA
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      710 months ago

      I don’t think there’s an elegant Greek-derived word for “hey, look at what I just stepped in”

      • @swlabr
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        710 months ago

        Perhaps not, but maybe “zemblanity”, a word I found by searching “serendipity but bad”:

        Zemblanity is the opposite of serendipity, meaning that it is an unlucky or unwanted, but predictable, event. Although it might be difficult to imagine someone behaving in a manner that could be predicted to cause harm, zemblanity can occur as a result of complex human and organizational factors.

        Per ness labs, which the only context I have for it is that it isn’t a dictionary.