{"id":16322,"date":"2006-03-27T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/03\/27\/fugacity-1.html"},"modified":"2006-03-27T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T17:38:24","slug":"fugacity-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/03\/27\/fugacity-1\/","title":{"rendered":"fugacity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had heard of the band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fugazi_%28band%29\">Fugazi<\/a>, but I didn't know their name derived from a Vietnam acronym: \"Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In.\"<\/p>\n<p>Only really, as it turns out, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fugazi\">fugazi<\/a>\" is what Wikipedia calls a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Backronym\">backronym<\/a>: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower2\/bburglar.html\">back-formated<\/a> acronym.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, the term derived from the word \"fugacious,\" which Wikipedia defines as meaning \"ready to flee\" (Run away!) (I suppose that means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leladowling.com\/\">Lela Dowling<\/a>'s Weasel Patrol, whose motto was \"Protect, serve, run away,\" was fugacious), but MW11 defines as a synonym for \"evanescent.\"&lt;\/p\n<p>Which brings us to the nominal topic of this entry: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?fugacity\">fugacity<\/a>,\" which is \"a measure of the escaping tendency of a substance,\" especially a vapor.<\/p>\n<p>So I suppose that things that are easily lost or very slippery could be said, metaphorically, to have a high fugacity.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea at this point where I ran into this word. It was only after I looked it up that I started wondering about the Fugazi connection.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard of the band Fugazi, but I didn&#8217;t know their name derived from a Vietnam acronym: &#8220;Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In.&#8221; Only really, as it turns out,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}