feel-good

feel-good
feel-good, feel-bad
We have had the feel-good factor and feelgoodism since 1977, when the New York Times reported that the latest aberration in the American pursuit of happiness is the feelgood movement. The word had been used earlier in Dr Feelgood, a term for a physician who provided short-term palliatives rather than effective cures. In the 1990s, the term feel-good factor came increasingly to be associated with material prosperity as a political and social factor. The antidote to all this is the feel-bad factor, which dates from the early 1990s:

• We're all so insecure about our short-term contracts and our feel-bad factors that we're terrified of appearing keen to leave the office —Guardian, 1995.

It is still with us:

• It is ironic that our nurses could be the first arm of the public sector to suffer the full brunt of the so-called feel-bad factor, the term used by economists to describe the creeping whiff of impending gloom —Sunday Times, 2007.


Modern English usage. 2014.

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