Instead of defaulting to “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” say “This is completely unprecedented.” Unprecedented is an adjective meaning “without previous instance” and “never before known or experienced unparalleled.” If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you’ll have seen this word used quite a lot. We used it in the previous slide, but let us explain it a little better …

One of the most apt words to describe the current reality seems like a good place to start. Here are just a few of those words to empower you right now. It’s easy to rely on everyday words (how often have you said to your friends, “This is crazy”?), but having an arsenal of words that describes unprecedented times a little better helps us understand our emotions and communicate them. Having words to describe our extreme situations can help us better connect with the people around us who are going through the same experiences. Events like natural disasters, periods of political change, or something entirely new (like a pandemic) can leave us grasping for something to say. We all have experienced other challenges during which casual words just don’t describe what we’re feeling. Not many people, if any at all, have experienced anything like this.

Humanity has of course seen other seismic events, but something as novel as this new pandemic can’t be described easily. With the entire globe weathering COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus, we are in uncharted territory.

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