Ii; inimical

Adjective

1. adverse or unfavourable: inimical to change

2. unfriendly or hostile [Latin in- not + amicus friendly]

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Winter is an inimical world; its punishment for doing things wrong is sure and prompt: death from cold or death from hunger. No margin, no reprieve. A man can trust his luck, but a society can't and culture change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going. Le Guinn (The Left Hand of Darkness) page 99.

Ss: Seldon Crisis

'Seldon Crises' planned and predetermined disaster with only one possible solution, (by Hari Seldon (after whom they were named)) as devices for controlling the flow of events in connection to the Government and the Governments Constitution.

destructive creation

whereby new technologies that improve people’s lives replace old ones

Cc: Cognoscenti

n. pl. co·gno·scen·ti (-t)

A person with superior, usually specialized knowledge or highly refined taste; a connoisseur.

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[Obsolete Italian, from Latin cognscns, cognscent-, present participle of cognscere, to know; see cognition.]

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The Parisian cognoscenti are curious to catch a whiff of change, to spot an emerging young star, and to glimpse the process of training the famed French dancers.

Report card: Paris Opera Ballet School's newest showing by Kunikova, Elena / Dance Magazine

Tt: Torpor

n.

1. A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.

2. Lethargy; apathy. See Synonyms at lethargy.

3. The dormant, inactive state of a hibernating or estivating animal.

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[Latin, from torpre, to be stiff; see ster-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

	1.	torpor - a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep torpor" torpidity hibernation - the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter lassitude, lethargy, sluggishness - a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state - the condition or state of the body or bodily functions
	2.	torpor - inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy torpidness, listlessness, torpidity passivity, passiveness - the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative

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She still lay back in the chair, possessed by a torpor like the torpor of death--insensible to sound, insensible to touch.The Haunted Hotel by Collins, Wilkie

Gg: Gabled

n.

1.

a. The generally triangular section of wall at the end of a pitched roof, occupying the space between the two slopes of the roof.

b. The whole end wall of a building or wing having a pitched roof.

2. A triangular, usually ornamental architectural section, as one above an arched door or window

The river and its tiny craft, the little gabled houses of the neighbourhood, with a garden or two dropped in, tell delightfully in the general effect.The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio