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futilitarian

[ fyoo-til-i-tair-ee-uhn ]

noun

a person who believes that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified.

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Futilitarian is a humorous blend of futile and utilitarian. The word was coined in scorn for the utilitarian philosophy for the jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and the philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-73). Futilitarian entered English in the 19th century.

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A lot of artists in America tend to be self-deprecating futilitarians, because we鈥檝e grown up in a culture in which art doesn鈥檛 matter except, occasionally, as a high-end investment.

Tim Kreider, "When Art Is Dangerous (or Not)," New York Times, January 10, 2015

For it is significant that much of the work of Bierce seems to be that of what he would have called a futilitarian, that he seldom seems able to find a suitable field for his satire, a foeman worthy of such perfect steel as he brings ot he encounter …

Bertha Clark Pope, "Introduction" to The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, 1922
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tabula rasa

[ tab-yuh-luh rah-suh, -zuh, rey-, , tah-boo-lah rah-sah ] [ 藞t忙b y蓹 l蓹 藞r蓱 s蓹, -z蓹, 藞re瑟-, , 藞t蓱 b蕣藢l蓱 藞r蓱 s蓱 ] Show IPA Phonetic Respelling
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First recorded in 1525鈥35, tabula rasa is from Latin tabula r膩sa 鈥渟craped tablet, clean slate鈥

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behemoth

[ bih-hee-muhth, bee-uh- ]

noun

any creature or thing of monstrous size or power: The army's new tank is a behemoth. The cartel is a behemoth that small business owners fear.

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The traditional etymology of the Hebrew noun behemoth is that it is an augmentative or intensive plural of 产蓹丑脓尘腻丑 鈥渂east,鈥 a derivative of the West Semitic root bhm 鈥渢o be dumb.鈥 It is also possible that Hebrew 产蓹丑脓尘腻丑 is an adaptation to Hebrew phonology of Egyptian p-ehe-mau 鈥渉ippopotamus鈥 (literally 鈥渙x of the water鈥). Behemoth entered English in the 14th century.

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… in a play for the ideological high ground, Mr. de Blasio has cast Uber as a corporate behemoth with a singular goal.

Matt Flegenheimer, "City Hall, in a Counterattack, Casts Uber as a Corporate Behemoth," New York Times, July 20, 2015

Power – this one word sums up the rise in concerns on the left about tech behemoth Facebook.

Tim Mak, "Congress May Soon Impose New Regulations on Facebook," All Things Considered, NPR, January 15, 2019
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