A reader writes:
Palinization is all well and good, but it's made up! And there's no need to go that route when there's a real "Palin-" word that gets pretty close to the former half-term governor's media presence:
palinopsia [pal?in-op´se-ah] visual perseveration; the pathologic continuance or recurrence of a visual sensation after the stimulus is gone.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. Or as my neuroscience professor puts it: A condition in which a "previously viewed object reappears sporadically."
Another reader follows up:
Your reader wrote: "In Ancient Greek, 'palin' means 'again,' or 'once more.'" They're correct, but there's more. When used to refer to place, it means "back" or "backwards". More charitably for the image Palin is trying to sell, it was often used with the verb "dounai" (Ancient Greek for "to give"), meaning "to restore".
Another:
"Palin" literally means something closer to "backwards" (as in "palindrome" or "palinode"). I've always found that deliciously apt.
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