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Someone whose hobby pays them in joy, not money, and still feels rich.
means A person filled with intense, eager interest or devotion to a particular activity, subject, or cause.
from From Greek 'enthousiastes,' rooted in 'enthousiazein' — to be inspired or possessed by a god. Break it down further and you get 'en' (in) plus 'theos' (god): literally, to have divinity inside you. The word originally described religious ecstasy, the trembling sense of being filled with something larger than yourself — only later did it cool into its modern, secular sense of someone merely very keen on trains, gardening, or vintage synthesizers. The god is gone, but the possession remains.
- origin
- Greek enthousiasmos means god inside you
- spectrum
- one step before obsessive, two before unemployable
- tell
- owns gear beyond their actual skill level
- superpower
- makes boring subjects fascinating at dinner parties