Etymology

[andrewducker]

Is there a word for the feeling that everything will always be exactly how it is in the present, even though that present situation has only lasted 3 days?

Comments

[chillies.livejournal.com]

Depending on how good the situation is, it could be optimism.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Having flu :(

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Provincialism? A bit of a stretch, but it can include "everything everywhere will be just like here and now".

[cx650.livejournal.com]

Not so much a single word, but a phrase.

Same sh!t, different day!

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

There is, but I can't remember it. ISTR it being a variant of the name of the psychologist that first described it (not Maslow, but a contemporary).

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Rut, as in being in one.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

If it's a negative feeling, then 'hopelessness' might be it. It's also possible there's a clinical term, as the sense of 'nothing will ever change' is commonly part of clinical depression.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Childhood?

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

limbo, possibly?