Perfervid:
adjective
extremely fervid; ardent [Collins English Dictionary]
Noted in “America Is Trapped in Trump’s Delusional World,” Andrew Sullivan, New York:
At its center is mental illness. It radiates out of the center like a toxin in the blood. And this, again, is nothing new. On Trump’s first day in office, with respect to the size of his inauguration crowd, he insisted that what was demonstrably, visibly, incontrovertibly false was actually true. At that moment, we learned that all the lies and exaggerations and provocations of the previous year were not just campaign tools, designed to con and distract, but actually constitutive of his core mental health. He was not lying, as lying is usually understood. He was expressing what he believed to be true, because his ego demanded it be true. And for Trump, as we now know, there is no reality outside his own perfervidly narcissistic consciousness.
A lovely word. The context of the United States electing this chump, however, makes me ill at my heart.
