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Latest comment: 3 months ago by Voltaigne in topic RFV discussion: November 2023–September 2024
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Rfv-sense: (noun) 'An impractical dreamer'.
This is a somewhat pejorative or dismissive connotation. In my experience visionary is used in a positive sense to denote someone who has ambitious and transformative ideas about what the future could look like, and who personally contributes to their realization and/or inspires others to strive in that direction (closer to sense 3, 'Someone who has positive ideas about the future.'). Voltaigne (talk) 01:14, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
- The word is frequently used in an aggrandizing manner, but I agree that it isn't dismissive in and of itself. Perhaps that's what they intended to convey but didn't get it quite right. AP295 (talk) 01:37, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
- Cited, the dismissive sense was the standard one until relatively recently. It might perhaps be considered dated now but I've still heard it used that way in real life. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 09:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
- I don't think it is dated, but it is definitely less common. Similar sense evolution to revolution. DCDuring (talk) 17:04, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
- Good to know. Interesting that it has been repurposed for hagiography, which hardly seems an impoverished line of work despite the decline of religion. AP295 (talk) 04:17, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- RFV-Passed Belated thanks. Voltaigne (talk) 13:25, 29 September 2024 (UTC)