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job satisfaction

the attitude of a worker toward his or her job, often expressed as a hedonic response of liking or disliking the work itself, the rewards (pay, promotions, recognition), or the context (working conditions, colleagues). See also job involvement.

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March 15th 2025

utopia

utopia

n. an idealized, perfect society. Coined by English statesman and author Thomas More (1478–1535) in his speculative political fiction Utopia (1516), the term is of Greek derivation (literally, “no place”). By contrast, the term dystopia, coined in about 1950, refers to an imaginary society of nightmarish conditions. —utopian adj.