With the easing of mask mandates as the pandemic nears its end, Merriam Webster serves up what may be the perfect Word of the Day: “Miasma.”
miasma
noun – mye-AZ-muh
1 : a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease; also : a heavy vaporous emanation or atmosphere.
2 : an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt; also : an atmosphere that obscures : fog.
