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Vocabulary

Life-affirmation

Hi guys

Does life-affirmation mean cheerfulness or something else?
  

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Hi, 'Life affirmation' is the act of showing or asserting strongly that life is good, life is valuable. The term is often found in a context where some doubt about the value of lfe has been suggested. eg A year after his family died in a traffic accident, he held a party for all his firiends as a life-affirming act.

  • Hi, 'Life affirmation' is the act of showing or asserting strongly that life is good, life is valuable.
  • The term is often found in a context where some doubt about the value of lfe has been suggested.
  • eg A year after his family died in a traffic accident, he held a party for all his firiends as a life-affirming act.
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

'Life affirmation' is the act of showing or asserting strongly that life is good, life is valuable.

The term is often found in a context where some doubt about the value of lfe has been suggested.

eg A year after his family died in a traffic accident, he held a party for all his firiends as a life-affirming act.

Best wishes, Clive
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Hi

OK, I'll give you an example:



... it’s clear that the main event in human history is a sudden, massive

regression – a dramatic shift from harmony to chaos, from peace to war, from life-affirmation to gloom, or from sanity to madness.

--- How would you rephrase that part in bold to make it clearer to me? Maybe it's possible to use som
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Hi,

, I'll give you an example: good idea



... it’s clear that the main event in human history is a sudden, massive

regression – a dramatic shift from harmony to chaos, from peace to war, from life-affirmation to gloom, or from sanity to madness.

--- How would you rephrase that part in bold to make it clearer to me? Maybe it's possible t

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