ASMR

English

Noun

ASMR (countable and uncountable, plural ASMRs)

1. (countable) Initialism of age-specific mortality rate.
2. (countable, seismology) Initialism of accelerating seismic moment release.
3. (uncountable) Initialism of autonomous sensory meridian response (“a claimed biological phenomenon involving a pleasurable tingling in response to a stimulus”).
   • 2014, Joceline Andersen, “Now You’ve Got the Shiveries: Affect, Intimacy, and the ASMR Whisper Community”, in Television & New Media, volume 16, number 8:

     The ASMR community struggles with popular perception of the transgressive nature of their shared pleasure, which by its public nature is what Berlant and Warner call "nonstandard intimacy."

   • 2015 April 21, Tanis Fowler, “Relax, you may have ASMR: YouTube videos sparking pleasurable, hypnotic-like sensation result in millions of views”, in Toronto Star‎^[2], archived from the original on 29 June 2017:

     You might say [Bob] Ross was the first ASMRtist, as those who produce ASMR videos like to be called.

   • 2015 April 26, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, quoting Holly Herndon, “Holly Herndon: the queen of tech-topia”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     “The ASMR community goes against that mainstream assertion that the internet is making everybody less connected, and hurting relationships,” Herndon says. “People are making these videos at their desks, putting them online for free, and comforting strangers in this really therapeutic and sweet way.” Her own ASMR trigger is the sound of acrylic fingernails tapping on a smartphone screen.

4. (uncountable) Content, especially audio, intended to elicit the autonomous sensory meridian response. Derived from the previous definition.

Derived terms

• ASMRotica
• ASMRtist

Translations

initialism of autonomous sensory meridian response

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧術魔刃 / 奥术魔刃 (àoshúmórèn) (slang)

• Czech: ASMR ?
• Esperanto: ASMR
• German: ASMR n
• Indonesian: ASMR
• Japanese: ASMR (ē-esu-emu-āru)
• Polish: ASMR n
• Polish: ASMR n
• Russian: АСМР (ru) ? (ASMR)
• Spanish: ASMR (es) f
• Turkish: ASMR

Proper noun

ASMR

1. Initialism of American Society of Mining and Reclamation.

Anagrams

• M.R.A.S., Rams, Masr, AMRs, ASRM, rasm, arms, MARS, ARMs, mars, S/MAR, MRAs, SARM, MRSA, mas'r, Mars, MSAR, RAMs, SRAM, rams

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɛsˈɛm.ɛr/, [a.ɛsˈɛm.ɛr]

Noun

ASMR (plural ASMR-ASMR)

1. initialism of autonomous sensory meridian response (“a claimed biological phenomenon involving a pleasurable tingling in response to a stimulus”).

Further reading

• “ASMR”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ASMR.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e̞ːe̞sɨe̞mɯ̟a̠ːɾɯ̟]

Noun

ASMR(エーエスエムアール) • (ē-esu-emu-āru) 

1. ASMR

References

• “ASMR”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[4] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “ASMR” in Weblio Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew

Proto-Indo-European *tó-

Proto-Hellenic *autós

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.

Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)

Ancient Greek τόν (tón)

Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)

Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)

Proto-Indo-European *nem-der.

Proto-Indo-European *németi

Proto-Hellenic *némō

Ancient Greek νέμω (némō)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos)

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Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek αὐτόνομος (autónomos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomĭ́ā)bor.

English autonomy

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Old French -usbor.

Middle English -ous

English -ous

English autonomous

Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.

Proto-Italic *sentiō

Latin sentiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin sēnsusbor.

Proto-Germanic *sinnaz

Frankish *sinnbor.

Vulgar Latin *sennus

Old French sensbor.

Middle English sense

English sense

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -tōriusder.

Middle English -orie

English -ory

English sensory

Proto-Indo-European *me

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe

Proto-Indo-European *médʰi

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos

Proto-Italic *meðios

Latin medius

Proto-Indo-European *dyew-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws

Proto-Italic *djous

Latin diēs

Latin medīdiēs

Latin merīdiēs

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Latin merīdiānusder.

Middle English meridian

English meridian

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Proto-Indo-European *spend-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *spondéyeti

Proto-Italic *spondejō

Proto-Italic *spondeō

Latin spondeō

Latin respondeō

Latin respōnsumbor.

Old French respunsbor.

Middle English respounse

English response

English autonomous sensory meridian responseinit.

English ASMRbor.

Spanish ASMR

Borrowed from English ASMR.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a ˌese ˌeme ˈere/ [a ˌe.se ˌe.me ˈe.re]

Noun

ASMR f (uncountable)

1. ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response)