superfluous man

of imperial Africa dug for gold, the most superfluous raw material on earth, with money just as superfluous paying for the digging.

Recast in definition form from: “… to the superfluous money that financed the digging of gold …”

Alexander Pushkin

alienation

Anton Chekhov

aristocracy

boredom

Byronic hero

ennui

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ivan Turgenev

Leo Tolstoy

literature

nihilism

romanticism

Russia

erotic type

introverted feeling

introverted feeling type

introverted intuitive

introverted sensation

introverted thinking

irrational type

libidinal type

lover of sights

narcissistic type

sensation type

social type

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

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superfluous man