avenoir (C1)
noun
Pronunciation: əˈvɛnɔɪər
Definition
Avenoir is a modern coined word for the wish that memory could work in reverse, so you could feel the future as clearly as you remember the past. It is poetic and uncommon, not a standard everyday word.
Examples
The graduation video gave her a strange feeling of avenoir about the life ahead.
Science fiction often plays with avenoir, letting characters remember events that have not happened yet.
He used avenoir to describe the ache of wanting to know his future self.
How to Use avenoir
- a feeling of avenoir (noun phrase)
- a poetic sense of longing toward the future — "The final scene leaves viewers with a feeling of avenoir."
- feel avenoir (verb phrase)
- experience this imagined future-looking nostalgia — "She felt avenoir while packing for a city she had never seen."
- avenoir about the future (prepositional phrase)
- avenoir directed toward what has not happened yet — "The song captures avenoir about the future."
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