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Moral indignation that feels like justice and spends like entertainment.
means A strong feeling of anger and indignation provoked by something perceived as unjust, offensive, or wrong.
from Despite looking like 'out' + 'rage,' the word has nothing to do with raging outward — it comes from Old French 'outrage,' built on 'outre' meaning 'beyond' (from Latin 'ultra'), plus a noun suffix, so it originally meant something like 'an act that goes beyond' acceptable bounds — an excess or extravagance. The folk reading as 'out-rage' is a later English reinterpretation that happened to fit the sense perfectly, which is probably why it stuck so hard.
- attention economics
- anger drives more clicks than joy does
- half-life
- burns hot, forgotten by next scandal
- etymology trap
- not out+rage, it is outre plus age
- social proof
- shared faster when it confirms what you believe