Word.ws English Dictionary

crisitunity

crisitunity noun: a crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an opportunity.

Noun

crisitunity (plural crisitunities)

  1. (informal, rare) A crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an opportunity.
    • Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?2010, Nick Lantz, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, page 25
    • Communicate the “crisitunity.” Originally coined by Homer Simpson, a “crisitunity” is the moment when crisis meets opportunity—and it has a slightly better ring than “opporisis.” Regardless of the word choice, the principle is straightforward: by communicating a time-sensitive problem your...2011, Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Nonprofit Management 101, page 267

Forms of crisitunity

pluralcrisitunities

Origin of crisitunity

Blend of crisis + opportunity; introduced as a gag in the animated television series The Simpsons (season 6, episode 11, "Fear of Flying", first broadcast on 18 December 1994): * LISA: Look on the bright side, Dad. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity"? * HOMER: Yes. "Crisitunity"! You're right.

Questions about crisitunity

What does crisitunity mean?
Crisitunity means a crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an opportunity.
What part of speech is crisitunity?
Crisitunity is a noun.
What is the plural of crisitunity?
The plural of crisitunity is crisitunities.

Words near crisitunity in the dictionary

  1. crisis response teams
  2. crisis-ridden
  3. crisisless
  4. crisislike
  5. crisitunities
  6. crisitunity
  7. Crisler
  8. Crislers
  9. Crislip
  10. Crislips
  11. Crisman

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crisitunity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crisitunity.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crisitunity. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.