Entertainment / Literature / Shifting: A general term in linguistics for any slight alteration in a word's meaning, or the creation of an entirely new word by changing the use of an expression.
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Business / Human Resources (HR) / Downshifting: Refers to employees who choose to accept or remain in lower level or lower paying jobs in order to satisfy their personal and family needs. MORE
Science / Psychiatry / La Belle Indifférence: Literally, beautiful indifference. Seen in certain patients with conversion disorders who show an inappropriate lack of concern about their disabilities. labile Rapidly shifting (as applied to emotion MORE
Entertainment / Music / New Age: Style of popular music of the 1980s and 1990s, characterized by soothing timbres and repetitive forms that are subjected to shifting variation techniques. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Transposition: Shifting a piece of music to a different pitch level. MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Distractibility: The inability to maintain attention, that is, the shifting from one area or topic to another with minimal provocation, or attention being drawn too frequently to unimportant or irrelevant external sti MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Syncopation: The use of syncope. See below. MORE