"climate grief" meaning in English

See climate grief in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Blend of climate change + grief. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|climate change|grief}} Blend of climate change + grief Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} climate grief (uncountable)
  1. Grief caused by fear of climate change. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Climate change Synonyms: climate despair
    Sense id: en-climate_grief-en-noun-k8wCnZZ5 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for climate grief meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "climate change",
        "3": "grief"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of climate change + grief",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of climate change + grief.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "climate grief (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Climate change",
          "orig": "en:Climate change",
          "parents": [
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 24, Avichai Scher, “'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change”, in NBC News",
          "text": "Jennifer Atkinson, a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington in Bothell, will teach her second course on climate grief next semester. She offers the course to students in the environmental studies program to help prevent the burnout that can develop by confronting the problem daily.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 18, Victoria Knight, “‘Climate Grief’: Fears About The Planet’s Future Weigh On Americans’ Mental Health”, in Kaiser Health News",
          "text": "Although it is not an official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon: “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 2, Panu Pihkala, “Climate grief: How we mourn a changing planet”, in BBC Future",
          "text": "I’ve guided workshops and given dozens of public lectures, especially in Finland, my home country. And I’ve met a lot of people with climate grief and eco-anxiety.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Grief caused by fear of climate change."
      ],
      "id": "en-climate_grief-en-noun-k8wCnZZ5",
      "links": [
        [
          "climate change",
          "climate change"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "climate despair"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "climate grief"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "climate change",
        "3": "grief"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of climate change + grief",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of climate change + grief.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "climate grief (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Climate change"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 24, Avichai Scher, “'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change”, in NBC News",
          "text": "Jennifer Atkinson, a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington in Bothell, will teach her second course on climate grief next semester. She offers the course to students in the environmental studies program to help prevent the burnout that can develop by confronting the problem daily.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 18, Victoria Knight, “‘Climate Grief’: Fears About The Planet’s Future Weigh On Americans’ Mental Health”, in Kaiser Health News",
          "text": "Although it is not an official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon: “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 2, Panu Pihkala, “Climate grief: How we mourn a changing planet”, in BBC Future",
          "text": "I’ve guided workshops and given dozens of public lectures, especially in Finland, my home country. And I’ve met a lot of people with climate grief and eco-anxiety.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Grief caused by fear of climate change."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "climate change",
          "climate change"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "climate despair"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "climate grief"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.