Ochloanoia
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὄχλος (óchlos, “crowd, mob”) + ἄνοια (ánoia, “lack of understanding, folly”).
Pronunciation
- Katakana: オクロアノイア (Okuroanoia)
- Hangul: 오클로아노이아 (Okeulloanoia)
- Anglo-Saxon Runes: ᚩᚳᛚᚩᚪᚾᚩᛁᚪ (Okloanoia)
Noun
ochloanoia (uncountable)
- Collective mindlessness or irrationality that arises specifically within a crowd or mob, in which individual judgment dissolves into shared folly.
- The riot was less a coordinated protest and more a sudden outbreak of ochloanoia, as hundreds of otherwise sensible people succumbed to the chaos.