luftmensch

Meaning

Noun

  • One more concerned with airy intellectual pursuits than practical matters like earning an income.

Origin

  • From Yiddish לופֿטמענטש, from לופֿט + מענטש. Compare German von Luft und Liebe leben, German Luftikus.

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