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The quiet scoreboard everyone swears they ignore while checking it constantly.
means A person's or thing's relative standing, rank, or current condition within a system or society.
from Straight from Latin status, 'a standing, position, condition,' from stare, 'to stand' — the same root that braces statue, stable, and state. The image is literal: where you stand. English borrowed it whole, unchanged in spelling, and the social-rank flavor (as in 'status symbol') grew up around it later, while the plain 'current state' sense (a flight's status, your status update) kept the original Latin standing.
- linguistic root
- From Latin status, meaning a standing or condition
- peacock proof
- Costly signals work because they're expensive to fake
- brain wiring
- Status changes register in the same reward circuits as cash
- relative game
- It's never about having, only having more
- http echo
- Status codes silently judge every webpage you load
facebook status — feature allowing users to share updates, launched 2006, now with 3 billion monthly active users
status symbol — rolex watch or luxury car ownership demonstrating wealth and social position
marital status — legal classification: single, married, divorced, widowed on government documents and census data