luftmenschn.

Brit.

/ˈlʊftmɛnʃ/, U.S.

/ˈlʊftˌmɛn(t)ʃ/

Inflections: Plural luftmenschen.

Forms: 1900s– luftmensch, 1900s– luftmensh, 1900s– luftmentsch, 1900s– luftmentsh. Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish luftmentsh.

Etymology: < Yiddish luftmentsh < luft air ( < Middle High German luft : see lift n.¹) + mentsh person, human being ( < Middle High German mensch : see mannish n.).Compare German Luftmensch (1901 in this sense, in an address by Max Nordau at a Zionist congress ( < Yiddish); 18th cent. or earlier in texts by non-Jews in the sense ‘person whose temperament is associated with the air (in the ancient four-elements hypothesis of air, earth, fire, and water)’, 1815 or earlier in the sense ‘sylph’). Nordau is sometimes credited with first using the German word, but it is more likely that he merely popularized a term that was already being used orally in the specific sense. In plural form luftmenschen after the Yiddish plural form luftmentshn; compare also the German plural form Luftmenschen.

Chiefly in Jewish usage: a person who indulges in impractical or unrealistic plans; an impractical dreamer.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person

dreamera1425

fantast1588

fantastical1589

fantastic1598

maggot-monger1607

Sabine1610

maggot-patea1640

wham1691

whim1712

visionarya1719

imaginariana1729

ideologue1815

ideologist1818

fancier1828

idealist1829

abstractionist1844

phantasist1864

dreamsmith1873

luftmensch1902

cuckoo-lander1916

fantasist1923

pie-in-the-skyer1973

1902 I. Zangwill in Hebrew Standard Australasia 28 Feb. 5/3 Still, let me be practical as becomes the true-born Briton... I will leave the Luft-menschen. I will move a resolution, and it shall be about money.

1960 Commentary June 530/1 The revolutionary student, the nihilist-anarchists, the Luftmenschen.

1969 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 26 Apr. 44/2 Menachem-Mendl, luftmensch extraordinary, a veritable Don Quixote of Eastern European commerce.

1986 D. Koontz Strangers i. i. 11 He won't be able to keep the business going, you know he won't, not even once the grief has passed and he goes back to work. The poor luftmensch.

2012 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Aug. 20/1 Its protagonist, Egon Loeser, is a full-time Luftmensch and part-time Berlin stage designer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	luftmensch
释义	luftmenschn. Brit. /ˈlʊftmɛnʃ/, U.S. /ˈlʊftˌmɛn(t)ʃ/ Inflections: Plural luftmenschen. Forms: 1900s– luftmensch, 1900s– luftmensh, 1900s– luftmentsch, 1900s– luftmentsh. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish luftmentsh. Etymology: < Yiddish luftmentsh < luft air ( < Middle High German luft : see lift n.¹) + mentsh person, human being ( < Middle High German mensch : see mannish n.).Compare German Luftmensch (1901 in this sense, in an address by Max Nordau at a Zionist congress ( < Yiddish); 18th cent. or earlier in texts by non-Jews in the sense ‘person whose temperament is associated with the air (in the ancient four-elements hypothesis of air, earth, fire, and water)’, 1815 or earlier in the sense ‘sylph’). Nordau is sometimes credited with first using the German word, but it is more likely that he merely popularized a term that was already being used orally in the specific sense. In plural form luftmenschen after the Yiddish plural form luftmentshn; compare also the German plural form Luftmenschen. Chiefly in Jewish usage: a person who indulges in impractical or unrealistic plans; an impractical dreamer. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person dreamera1425 fantast1588 fantastical1589 fantastic1598 maggot-monger1607 Sabine1610 maggot-patea1640 wham1691 whim1712 visionarya1719 imaginariana1729 ideologue1815 ideologist1818 fancier1828 idealist1829 abstractionist1844 phantasist1864 dreamsmith1873 luftmensch1902 cuckoo-lander1916 fantasist1923 pie-in-the-skyer1973 1902 I. Zangwill in Hebrew Standard Australasia 28 Feb. 5/3 Still, let me be practical as becomes the true-born Briton... I will leave the Luft-menschen. I will move a resolution, and it shall be about money. 1960 Commentary June 530/1 The revolutionary student, the nihilist-anarchists, the Luftmenschen. 1969 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 26 Apr. 44/2 Menachem-Mendl, luftmensch extraordinary, a veritable Don Quixote of Eastern European commerce. 1986 D. Koontz Strangers i. i. 11 He won't be able to keep the business going, you know he won't, not even once the grief has passed and he goes back to work. The poor luftmensch. 2012 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Aug. 20/1 Its protagonist, Egon Loeser, is a full-time Luftmensch and part-time Berlin stage designer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1902
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