ahnengeist.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
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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