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the gap left in the shape of what you held
means The fact or feeling of no longer having something or someone you once had, whether through death, defeat, or simple misplacement.
from From Old English 'los,' meaning destruction or ruin, tied to the verb 'lose' and its Old English ancestor 'losian' (to perish, to be destroyed). The whole family traces back to a Proto-Germanic root suggesting loosening or letting go — possibly a cousin of the same root behind 'loose' and 'dissolve.' So at its core, loss is a thing coming undone: a grip that slackens until what you held slips through.
- loss aversion
- losing hurts twice as much as winning feels good
- phantom limb
- brains keep mapping what's no longer there
- five stages
- grief model was built for the dying, not mourners
- in business
- a 'write-off' is just loss with paperwork
loss of challenger shuttle — space shuttle challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after launch on january 28, 1986, killing all 7 crew members
loss of titanic — rms titanic sank on april 15, 1912, in the north atlantic after hitting an iceberg, killing ~1,500 people