karass

Definition

A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.

Etymology

Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1963, in the novel Cat's Cradle.

Example Sentences

• "We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon […]"
• "I do want to go to Arlinghurst, even though it's moronic and awful and there's no privacy at all, because I have started to build my karass there. I have the book club,I have the library—both libraries."
• "Like all complex systems of this type, each “karass” has its own history (see Chapter 1, 1.2). This history is a selected and saved internal ethos of organization based on both social relations and common activity experience."