Desuetude comes from suescere, a word that means to accustom (it also gave us the word custom). Disuse descends from uti, which means to use (that Latin word also gave us use and utility). Of the two, disuse is now the more common.
âº a word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word: Senior citizen is a euphemism for old person. The article made so much use of euphemism that often its meaning was unclear. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words.
Use euphoria to describe a feeling of great happiness and well-being, but know that euphoria often more than thatââit's unusually, crazy happy, over the top. Euphoria can even be classified as a mental illness. The earliest use of euphoria was to describe the relief provided by a medical procedure. The word was borrowed from New Latin, from the Greek word meaning ability to bear easily, fertility, from euphoros healthy, from the prefix eu-good, well plus pherein to bear.