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Subject: ethos: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Aug. 25, 2014

ethos \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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