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journaling

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Journaling is writing thoughts down regularly to make sense of them. Start journaling, journaling every evening.

Writing about a worry reliably reduces it, which has been tested more than most self-help claims. Journaling does not have to be daily or good, since nobody else will read it.

Definitions of journaling

  1. 1nounjournalingWriting thoughts down regularly to make sense of them.B2

    “Journaling for ten minutes a night got him through a hard winter.”

journaling is a practice.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dyew-

  2. Latin

    diurnālis

  3. Old French

    jornel — day

  4. Anglo-Norman

    jurnal — daily

  5. Middle English

    journal

  6. English

    journal

  7. English, today

    journaling

Built from

  • diurnus · Latin — of the day

journal comes from Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (whence modern French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). a doublet of diurnal and the journal#Etymology 2 from French.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Mental Health & Wellbeing

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journaling in the wild

  • XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) in 1993.

    XFS

  • XFS ensures the consistency of data by employing metadata journaling and supporting write barriers.

    XFS

  • ReiserFS is a general-purpose, journaling file system initially designed and implemented by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser and licensed under GPLv2.

    ReiserFS

  • Introduced in version 2.4.1 of the Linux kernel, it was the first journaling file system to be included in the standard kernel.

    ReiserFS

  • Journaled File System (JFS) is a 64-bit journaling file system created by IBM.

    JFS (file system)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the jurnal family

journaljournalist

journaling — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others