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Aug. 25, 2014
Word of the Day

ethos Audio Pronunciation
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\EE-thos, EE-thohs, ETH-os, -ohs\
noun
1. Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period: In the Greek ethos the individual was highly valued.
2. the character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc.
Quotes
These stories and countless others attest to the democratic ethos of social mobility and fluidity, heavily inflected by the Romantic ethos of "rugged individualism" and, however reductivist, Emersonian "self-reliance."
-- Ann Lauterbach, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience, 2005
Origin
Ethos comes from the Greek term meaning "custom; habit; character," and provides the root for the term ethics. It entered English in the 1600s.
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