Catcalling , that is verbal harassment of a woman, or piedibus , which stands for "accompanying adults to school on foot according to a predetermined route, as if it were a bus".
These are just some of the thousands of new terms, meanings and new phrases that enter the digital update of Zingarelli 2023, the vocabulary of the Italian language published by Zanichelli.
Other words tell of a movement towards more essential habits and lifestyles, such as "decluttering", the elimination of the superfluous, even in a figurative sense (mental decluttering ) or decumulation which indicates deprivation and denotes a strategy of progressive reduction of previously assets accumulated.
But also metaverse , that is, a virtual space that the user can inhabit with their avatar. Or words that tell of a reality in evolution towards a more sustainable world, with the neologisms biohotel and eco -station . Others speak of the change in models and attitudes, such as the adjective bioinspired , which indicates what is made on the model of living forms or systems (an aerodynamic profile inspired by the flight of birds) or greenwashing which instead denotes an environmentalism only on the facade, especially by a company that wants to present itself as ecologically responsible, even if only in appearance.
Again, the term skill , which indicates recognizing value only to those who are able, with a consequent discriminatory attitude towards disabled people; fat shaming , that is the derision of a person for his weight considered excessive, or syndemia , which indicates the superimposition of an epidemic on previous negative general conditions - for example malnutrition in a population - which necessarily aggravate its effects.
(Unioneonline / D)
