wendejetlag
/ˈvɛndəˌdʒɛtˌlæɡ/nounVerified NewThe disorientation of a polity that has announced a historic turning point and then experienced no turn.
The speech happened, the word entered the language, the schedules did not change; citizens live in the gap between the announced epoch and the unchanged Tuesday.
Etym. — *Zeitenwende* (genericized to *wende-*, "turning point") + *jetlag* — the time-zone displacement between rhetoric and reality.
Rel. — summitosis · squeakerbrag
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