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enmeshment en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English enmesh Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English enmeshment From enmesh + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being enmeshed; entanglement.
   • And for the brief window of time in which the web was used primarily as a business tool for maximum efficiency, this may have been the kind of existence we led when the news industry moved online. But as it turned out, our full-scale enmeshment with the internet has tilted much more personal. 2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:

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