Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A crucial or decisive point or situation, especially a difficult or unstable situation involving an impending change.
- noun A sudden change in the course of a disease or fever, toward either improvement or deterioration.
- noun An emotionally stressful event or traumatic change in a person's life.
- noun A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A paroxysm of acute localized pain or of functional disturbance of some organ accompanying tabes dorsalis or other degenerative affection of the spinal cord.
- noun A vitally important or decisive state of things; the point of culmination; a turning-point; the point at which a change must come, either for the better or the worse, or from one state of things to another: as, a ministerial crisis; a financial crisis; a crisis in a person's mental condition.
- noun In medicine, the change of a disease which indicates the nature of its termination; that change which prognosticates recovery or death. The term is sometimes also used to denote the symptoms accompanying the condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
- noun (Med.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
crucial ordecisive point orsituation ; aturning point . - noun An
unstable situation, inpolitical ,social ,economic ormilitary affairs , especially one involving animpending abrupt change . - noun A
sudden change in thecourse of adisease , usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die. - noun psychology A
traumatic orstressful change in a person'slife . - noun drama A point in a
drama at which aconflict reaches apeak before beingresolved .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
- noun a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 10/25/08: The Crash: The Plot Thickens yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Crash: The Plot Thickens'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: In recent days, a possible motive for the current financial crisis has been suggested by the crisis\' own architects themselves. '
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Trust yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Trust'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: At the bottom of the \'financial crisis\' is a crisis of trust.
Trust 2008
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"The mood is that the economic crisis in UK is better than the crisis in Poland."
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"The system is working" to manage what Alan Greenspan is calling a once in a century event. and the rest of this week's meltdown (from oldest to newest) ... video: wamu looking for buyer* obama: help for US finance crisis needed from abroad* wall st journal: one week later, a new world order* industrials: biggest 2 day rally since 1929* china blames wall st meltdown on fed overissuance of currency* dodd: the US may be 'days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system'* failed bank list* we have only days to stop the $700b stick-up (& fascist powergrab) * regulators shut down ameribank in west virginia* in hard times, tent cities rise across the country* growing' tent cities 'blamed on foreclosure crisis*
media monarchy 2008
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I think where they lost, if anywhere, was when Brenda Ekwurzel of Union of Concerned Scientists was responding to the question, “…if this is a crisis, what kind of lifestyle change, what kind of economic pain, and how quickly are you proposing…to hedge our bets?” with “ASAP … As soon as possible because’€” … Everything, everything that we can throw at solving this climate crisis’€”well, this climate problem, is important…”
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The term crisis comes from the Greek origin, meaning circle ( "kreis" in German).
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"The single most important line of defense for young people in crisis is a network of visibly supportive adults, in their own community, in school, at home," Byard said.
Support, Counseling, Education For Gay Youth Just A Click Away AP 2010
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Just as the phrase "crisis of confidence" characterized the U.S. credit freeze after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in 2008, it has become shorthand for in the debt crisis of Europe, too.
Jeff Reeves: The Only Thing That Will Save the Economy in 2012 Jeff Reeves 2011
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"The single most important line of defense for young people in crisis is a network of visibly supportive adults, in their own community, in school, at home," Byard said.
Support, Counseling, Education For Gay Youth Just A Click Away AP 2010
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The symbol for the word crisis in Chinese is made up of two words: danger and opportunity.
It’s Your Time Joel Osteen 2010
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On Facebook and YouTube in particular, users have published viral posts and videos calling people like Braden “crisis actors”, alleging they were hired to pose as victims.
'I hope someone truly shoots you': online conspiracy theorists harass Vegas victims Sam Levin 2019
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Language around climate change has evolved, people are now more inclined to use the phrase climate crisis.
Taxonomies and metadata: 5 key tips for UX writers Alice Walsh 2022
npydyuan commented on the word crisis
Is there a good word for the sociocognitive dissonance that occurs when you suddenly realize that, despite having several identifiable traits in common with someone else, your assumptions about further commonality or compatibility with them are false?
Just asking, 'cuz that's happened to me a few times.
September 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word crisis
You're not alone, npydyuan! ;-)
September 22, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word crisis
That's comforting. Thanks. :-)
September 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word crisis
Oh, I suspect more people than not have had similar experiences.... :-)
September 22, 2007
bilby commented on the word crisis
Something like this.
December 11, 2007
reesetee commented on the word crisis
How sad.
December 11, 2007