from Latin ambitio "desire for/currying favor/popularity, flattery; pomp; vote canvassing"
amb- "around" (from PIE root *ambhi- "around") + ire "go" (from PIE root *ei- "to go")
1340, ambicioun "eager or inordinate desire for honor or preferment"
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
⚜ | classic definition |
☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |