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Embracing Chance: Understanding Ailurophiles

Explore the mysterious world of ailurophiles, individuals with a deep affinity for cats. Discover the origins of this term and how it relates to cat fanciers. Uncover the unpredictable nature of aleatory events and its impact on law and music.

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Embracing Chance: Understanding Ailurophiles

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  1. Additional Vocabulary Words 9 and 10

  2. Ailurophile • (n.) a person who likes cats; cat fancier • Originated 1925 – 30 from the Greek aílouro “cat,” + the suffix –phile (from a group of suffixes used to specify attraction or affinity to something, particularly love or obsession. Antonymic to -phob) • After stepping into the woman’s house and observing the massive amount of feline propaganda located therein, I concluded that she was an ailurophile.

  3. Aleatory • (adj.) [Law] depending on a contingent event; of or pertaining to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable; [Music] employing the element of chance in the choice of tones, rests, durations, rhythms, dynamics, etc. • Originated 1685 – 95; From the Latin āleātōrius, equivalent to āleātōr- (stem of āleātor meaning “gambler” [from āle meaning “game of chance” + ātor]) + -ius which is an adj. suffix. • After one rolls the dice, the future is completely aleatory.

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