Wondrous Words Wednesday

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative!   If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky!

I found these words in IN PAIN by Travis Rieder.

1. akratic – “On this sort of view, we can make sense of what it means to be weak-willed — or as philosophers like to say, “akratic” (from the Greek akrasia, for “weakness of will”); sometimes, it turns out, my work loses out to Netflix.”

Rieder actually defines akratic but it was new to me so I looked it up to see if there was more to the definition.  Akratic means characterized by weakness of will resulting in action against one’s better judgment.    

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2. analogue – “But, of course, heroin is much more dangerous, as it is increasingly laced with the superpotent drugs fentanyl and its analogues.”

I knew one definition of analogue – relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity – but that didn’t fit here, so I looked it up.  It turns out analogue can also be a noun that means a person or thing seen as comparable to another.    

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What words do you want to celebrate today?