Definitions
Etymologies
- Japanese 過労死 (karōshi), from 過労 (karō, "overwork") + 死 (shi, "death"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In Japan, the term karoshi can be translated literally as “death from overwork”—most commonly from heart attack and stroke.”
“In the press this was called karoshi, death from overwork, and reports on the trend had become popular.”
“Young and beautiful, Mifumi died there on the screen though he doesn't really die for fifty or more years, they think from something they call karoshi, which means he worked himself to death.”
“It's known as karoshi, literally to be worked to death.”
“Sudden deaths from brain and heart disorders are classified as karoshi if linked to extremely long hours and on-the-job stress.”
“The problem has become so widespread that the Japanese even have a word, "karoshi," which means "death from overwork.”
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“South Korea and Japan are the only countries where death by work or "karoshi" is a recognized phenomenon.”
“The number of deaths, usually through strokes or heart attacks, in Japan that are classified as "karoshi" has been hovering at around 150 annually in recent years, according to ministry data.”
“A store manager with hamburger chain McDonald's in Japan who died of a brain haemorrhage was a victim of "karoshi" or death by overwork, a regional labour office said Wednesday.”
“For instance, there is a 'karoshi' hotline, begun in 1988 by lawyers, doctors and other specialists from all over Japan, that gives counseling to those suffering from overwork as well as to those who have lost their loved ones to overwork.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘karoshi’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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Clever Words
Cool words to work into a chat ...
luftmensch, karoshi, sunglade, moonwake, afterwit, grawlix, blinkenlights, blinkenlight, somewhen, twoth, coolth, overmorrow and 4 more...
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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Look Busy
Get to work!
ergophobia, elucubrate, karoshi, dogsbody, forswonk, moil, deft, assiduous, panurgic, paperasserie, bumf, blackleg and 91 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Words of weirdness
Weird words that are weird
fjord, rape, carnage, bubbles, wizz, screamery, dominion, panophobia, poopie, gremlin, fuzz, obtain and 103 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Words
Words to revisit
meliorate, ameliorate, ubiquitous, homologate, urbane, parergon, enmity, prevarication, karoshi, detritus, capitulate, luftmensch and 56 more...
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“The Economist�? words
Words noted from The Economist.
fisticuff, homily, jeremiad, mollify, karoshi, aegis, coterie, compatriot, tumbrel, cantankerous, vim, hokum and 8 more...
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Words to keep in mind
demur, indecorous, diktat, antipode, nonplussed, expatiate, pabulum, perspicuous, haptic, scatology, ullage, venery and 7 more...
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Occupational hazards
A complement to the "Defunct professions" list.
hatter's shakes, woolsorter's disease, goldsmelter's cat..., dustman's shoulder, painter's colic, lighterman's bottom, chimney sweep's c..., phossy-jaw, dialpainter's dis..., caisson disease, x-ray dermatitis, karoshi and 36 more...
Tweets
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sionnach Karoshi (�?�労死) (pronounced /karo:Si/), which can be translated quite literally from the Japanese as "death from overwork", is occupational sudden death. The major medical causes of karoshi deaths are heart attack and stroke due to stress.
The first case of karoshi was reported in 1969 with the death from a stroke of a 29-year-old married male worker in the shipping department of Japan's largest newspaper company. It was not until the latter part of the 1980s, however, when several high-ranking business executives who were still in their prime years suddenly died without any previous sign of illness, that the media began picking up on what appeared to be a new phenomenon. This new phenomenon was quickly labelled karoshi, and once it had a name and its symptoms were described and popularized, it was immediately seen as a new and serious menace for people in the work force. In 1987, as public concern increased, the Japanese Ministry of Labour began to publish statistics on karoshi.
Usually, Japan's rise from the devastation of World War II to economic prominence in the post-war decades has been regarded as the trigger for what has been called a new epidemic. It was recognized that employees cannot work for up to twelve hours a day six or seven days a week, year after year, without suffering physically as well as mentally.
Meanwhile, death-by-overwork lawsuits have been on the rise in Japan, with the deceased person's relatives demanding compensation payments. However, before compensation can be awarded, the labour inspection office must acknowledge that the death was work-related.
In Korea, where a Confucian-inspired work ethic involves much of the adult populace, both male and female, in a six-day workweek with long hours, this phenomenon is known as "kwarosa" (Hangul, 과로사), a word derived from the same Chinese characters as its Japanese equivalent (�?�, ka, being the Chinese character for "exceed", 労, rou, for "labor", and 死, shi, for "death"). Jul 9, 2008
kewpid “Death by overwork�? Jan 8, 2008