From Linda Zagzebski’s Divine Motivation Theory:
What’s the name of the emotion we experience when we roll our eyes?
From Linda Zagzebski’s Divine Motivation Theory:
What’s the name of the emotion we experience when we roll our eyes?
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?
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!!!
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 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
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
^ 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 )
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-