This week's puzzle asked for a six-letter word meaning "cultural instability." From where I pulled anomie I cannot say -- I was thinking that it sounded a lot like ennui but knew it didn't mean the same thing.
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Results of a Google search for "define:anomie."
- personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation
- lack of moral standards in a society
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Anomie, in contemporary English, means a condition of malaise in individuals, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie - Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anomie - A state of normlessness in society, most commonly occurring during periods of dramatic social change.
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Eric, I loved this, because the nun who taught me when I was 11 years old used to throw pieces of chalk at us and call us "Lackadaisical Gondoodles!" And here I am posting a comment on the wrong post. Forgive me, and thank you for your comment on the postal service post. I cannot get this blogging right. But you have to say I am a trier. All the best, annie x
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