Frisson:
- a brief moment of emotional excitement : SHUDDER, THRILLproduce a genuine frisson of disquiet— Patricia Craig
a frisson of surprise
a frisson of delight [Merriam-Webster]
Noted in “What’s the Plan?” Ari Schulman, New Atlantis:
As a pandemic loomed, the country moved in remarkably short order from shrug to shutdown. Understandably, some are already questioning the wisdom of this move, noting how little information we’re acting on and the devastation the shutdown is already wreaking on the economy. The New York Times grants shutdown skepticism the frisson of “taboo.”
