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COMPERSION
Definition of COMPERSION
noun
Vicarious joy associated with seeing one's partner have a joyful romantic or sexual relationship with another person.
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Where it comes from
Coined in the early 1990s by a group of members of the Kerista Commune, a polyamorous group based in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., in existence between 1956 and 1991, apparently randomly using an alphabet board (similar to a Ouija board), with -ion (suffix forming nouns). The hypothesis that the word is derived from French compère (“partner”) + English -sion (a variant of -tion (suffix forming nouns)), based on an earlier use of French compérage by the French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) to denote the practice of brothers-in-law sharing wives observed among Tupi people of the Brazilian Amazon, is less plausible: a website run by former members of the community states that neither the word compérage nor Lévi-Strauss’s work was known to them at the time, and the formation of the word in this way does not correspond to any known morphological process.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,388)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COMPERSION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 142, 9 October 2026.
Built from these letters
COMPERSION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CEIMNOOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COMPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMPERSION?
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