A Question of Vocabulary

From Linda Zagzebski’s Divine Motivation Theory:

What’s the name of the emotion we experience when we roll our eyes? :unamused:

Chagrin?

Banality?

Tourettes?

Gas?

Any of these correct? Am I close?

I don’t have an answer, I was hoping to get one here!

Banality is very close- banality being, perhaps, the thing we are reacting to when we roll our eyes.  A friend put it as disbelief, and that has an aspect of it too- we roll our eyes when we see something stale that happens [i]so often[/i] that we can't believe it's happening yet again (and we don't like it).

WTH Ucc … I came here for an answer as well, and you impale me on the pike of speculation.

Where go I from here, now that you have left me blinded? :astonished:

I think the only way we can get any satisfaction is to make up a word, petition to get it put into the dictionary, develop a 'net slang for it, get that in the dictionary, and hopefully end up with our face on a stamp.
There’s another situation there’s no word for that I brought up here about 6 months ago. Was never satisfied with how that turned out, either.

I don’t think that look is a single emotion by rather a combination of them.

It’s kind of like surprised disdain.

A situation at ILP that brings dis-satisfaction?

Oh Ucc, say it ain’t so!!! :unamused:

Oh damn it, I just conflated the situation of the “nameless instance”.

Mr. P,

I would go more with mundanely surprising disdain. Ucc is right I think, we’ll have to create a word for this instance of expression.

i’d say it’s similar to exasperation, but not quite the same thing…

exasperation about banality.

Banasperation.

Expanality.

Babality.

Mortal Kombat.

I’m not sure a new word is needed.

The report of multiple emotions in a sentence helps the listener to gain better understanding.

Let’s say that you find yourself going :unamused: to a friend, and don’t want to be rude. You could say, “I’m shocked at the mundane quality of your idea, and can’t believe that you would think it a good idea.”

That sentence communicates: shock, disbelief, and disappointment.

On another occasion the “eye-roll” might mean a slightly different set. That’s why an explanation is better than a word.

LMMFAO.

I don’t know Mr. P, I think Ucc has this one handled quite well, with less words than normally used to compose a sentence.

Whatever you boys want :wink:

Forced indifference?

“Whateverness”.

I have a harder one in mind for tomorrow, it’s the one I asked about back in the day.

Hi Ucc,

We’re all overthinking this one I believe, a practice which seems to come all too easily to those who philosophize. LOL

A neologism might be in order but in actual fact it need be no more enigmatic than sarcasm, plain and simple; its manifestation via the eye-roll, usually upward and to the left, an outward expression of same.

Call it the communication of exasperation or “oh good grief this again” - but really it is simply sarcarsm expressed nonverbally.

-GNJ-

CI is right and closest. Eyes rolling sort of means; Oh god here we go again. Or; Well it had to happen. exasperation

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or, if accompanied by tremors, could be seizure.

Siezures happen only on the fifth Thursday of every other month :laughing:

^ LOL and freak out on the seize-sign. I’ve seen people have seizures before and damned if that ain’t about the scariest moment for the observer(s) you can imagine.

. . . First time, was VERY fortunate to have been amongst a crowd with a nurse in it who knew exactly what to do: Nothing.

Give the person room so that they don’t hurt themselves. That’s really about it. Call 911 (if you can ever remember the number to it, i keep forgetting :angry:)

In all likelihood it’s a typical tonic-clonic event that is self-resolving and carries a fully self-explanatary history: From coming off some drug too fast (Xanax is a famous seizure-maker for the unsuspecting, unknowledgeable abuser) or, as in the above case, patient non-compliance. (Anne had skipped her phenytoin, or Dilantin. It was the exact reason.)

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Back to the study of communication though, CI’s offering is good for a single word but is simply incomplete b/c it lacks distinctive coexistence of sarcastic elements. Therefore, exasperation with sarcasm does it… but no, I don’t think we’re going to get this one down to one word.

-GuyNamedJohn-