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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA form of play that creates a temporary disruption of perception, for example by inducing vertigo, dizziness, disorientation, or frenzy. · The sensation or altered state of consciousness that is so created, called by sociologist Roger Caillois, the “strange excitement” of wanton destruction.
Via French from Ancient Greek ἶλιγξ (îlinx, “whirlpool; dizziness”), coined by French sociologist Roger Caillois in 1958.
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- Derivation mentionἶλιγξgrc · whirlpool; dizziness
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