ahnengeist

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The spirit of one's future self, present in the moment, that quietly knows the plans others hold for you will not come to pass — watching with guilt, with tenderness, and from a slight remove. uncountable

词源

German compound. From German ahnen (“to sense, to have a premonition; to intuit something not yet spoken”) (compare Ahnung (“foreboding, vague foreknowledge”) and Ahnen (“forebears, ancestors”))
and Geist (“spirit, ghost, mind”). The compound evokes a ghost that
arrives from the future rather than the past: the self that already knows,
standing just beside the moment, watching it unfold.
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