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Mr. Tom Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

disconcerting and disorienting

Hi

Am I supposed to understand that the word disorienting didn't exist before 1960? In other words, it was born in 1960?

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disconcerting%2C+disorienting&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdisconcerting%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdisorienting%3B%2Cc0

Thanks,

Tom
  

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According to M-W dictionary, the first known use of "disorient" was 1655. Clearly the word has become very much more common in recent years though.

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  • According to M-W dictionary, the first known use of "disorient" was 1655.
  • Clearly the word has become very much more common in recent years though.
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According to M-W dictionary, the first known use of "disorient" was 1655. Clearly the word has become very much more common in recent years though.
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