comenencia

Galician

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin convenientia. Doublet of conveniencia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [komẽˈnẽnθi̯ɐ], (western) [komẽˈnẽnsi̯ɐ]

Noun

comenencia f (plural comenencias)

  1. personal interest or involvement lacking solidarity
    Leva coidado con el, só se te arrima pola súa comenenciaBe careful, he gets near you just out of his own interest.
    • 1877, O Tío Marcos da Portela, number 39:
      Os pródicos falan forte, que ó cabo vixías son do noso adianto, mais as súas falas, como hai moitos que son xordos de comenencia, fan o efeuto de sermós en deserto.
      The periodicals speak loudly, after all they are watchmen of our progress, but their speeches, since there a so many who are deaf because of their own interest, have the effect of preaching in the desert.

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