Ad nauseam
Template:Short description Template:Otheruses Template:Titlelang {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} is a Latin term for an argument or other discussion that has continued to the figurative point of nausea.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>"ad nauseam" definition Dictionary.com</ref> For example, "this has been discussed {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" indicates that the topic has been discussed extensively and those involved have grown sick of it. The fallacy of dragging the conversation to an ad nauseam state in order to then assert one's position as correct due to it not having been contradicted is also called {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (to infinity) and argument from repetition.<ref name="AHD">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The term is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as "to a disgusting or ridiculous degree; to the point of nausea."<ref name="AHD" /> Colloquially, it is sometimes used as "until nobody cares to discuss it any more."
See alsoEdit
- Ad libitum
- Big lie
- Carthago delenda est
- Filibuster
- Godwin's law
- Proof by assertion
- Sealioning
- Thought-terminating cliché
- List of Latin phrases