Pronounced: glas-uh-FOE-bee-uh, noun
Notes: Clearly a fear of something, but what?
Yesterday’s word
The word impolitic means “not politic; unwise”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, our word is just in- (not) combined with politic (shrewd; sagacious; tactful). The word politic came from Middle French, which came from the Latin word politicus, which came from a Greek word that is based on polites (citizen). Our word is generally used to refer to a politically unwise action or policy on the part of public figures.
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