ASMR

English

Etymology

Initialism.

Noun

ASMR (countable and uncountable, plural ASMRs)

  1. (countable) Initialism of age-specific mortality rate.
  2. (countable, seismology) Initialism of accelerating seismic moment release.
  3. (uncountable) Initialism of autonomous sensory meridian response (a claimed biological phenomenon involving a pleasurable tingling in response to a stimulus).
    • 2014, Joceline Andersen, “Now You’ve Got the Shiveries: Affect, Intimacy, and the ASMR Whisper Community”, in Television & New Media, volume 16, number 8:
      The ASMR community struggles with popular perception of the transgressive nature of their shared pleasure, which by its public nature is what Berlant and Warner call "nonstandard intimacy."
    • 2015 April 21, Tanis Fowler, “Relax, you may have ASMR: YouTube videos sparking pleasurable, hypnotic-like sensation result in millions of views”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 29 June 2017:
      You might say [Bob] Ross was the first ASMRtist, as those who produce ASMR videos like to be called.

Derived terms

  • (autonomous sensory meridian response): ASMRtist

Translations

Proper noun

ASMR

  1. American Society of Mining and Reclamation.

Anagrams

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