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the scar tissue your enthusiasm grows after surviving too many letdowns.
means Worn-out, cynical, or unimpressed because you've had too much of something — the kind of dulled indifference that comes from overexposure.
from From the old word 'jade,' which meant a tired, broken-down, worn-out horse — a nag past its prime. By the late 1500s, calling someone or something 'jaded' carried that same sense of being exhausted and used up, the spark worked out of it. (Worth noting: this is a different 'jade' from the green gemstone, which came later by an unrelated route through Spanish.) The image is exactly right — a horse so overworked it can no longer be roused to gallop, which is more or less what too many disappointments do to a person.
- origin
- From 'jade,' a worn-out, broken-down old horse
- the gem
- Unrelated to jade stone, despite identical spelling
- first use
- Meant tired, overworked before meaning cynical
- the irony
- Often mistaken for wisdom, sometimes actually is
jade — nephrite and jadeite minerals that lose luster when repeatedly carved or worn smooth