#postlapsarian

[vocabulary-polls]

postlapsarian

adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of the time or state after the fall of humankind described in the Bible.

example sentence: "On the drive home, a postlapsarian melancholy crept over me. I had failed some unspoken initiation rite, and life's possibilities were no longer infinite." - Fun Home, Alison Bechdel.

To what degree did you understand the word "postlapsarian" prior to reading the definition

I fully understood what the word means and how to use it.

I mostly understood the meaning but would have trouble using it.

I vaguely understood the meaning, but not exactly

I thought I understood, but the precise definition threw me off.

I'd heard it before, but that's about it.

This is my first time hearing it.

nuance/other

Voting ended onAug 27, 2025

[metam0rphis]

[polyanthea]

Sometimes I think I understand the Fall like no one else.

-Franz Kafka, letter to Milena Jesenská

[yoursfortoday]

Someone described me as postlapsarian yesterday and that probably couldn't be any more right

[fewnewwords-blog]

versions of modesty or expressions of postlapsarian contrition

post-lapsarian, adj. Theol.

Occurring after or consequent on the fall of mankind through the sin of Adam and Eve.