kondo

/ ˈkɒndəʊ /

noun

1. (in Uganda) a thief or armed robber

Word History and Origins

Origin of kondo¹

C20: from Luganda

Example Sentences

Ross’ vacation prep is the opposite of Marie Kondo’s pre-pandemic minimalism.

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As a professor, I plunged right back into teaching classes, tap dancing away the loss and cracking macabre jokes at my own expense, remarking that the fires were the ultimate Marie Kondo exercise in decluttering.

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Japanese expert organizer and author Marie Kondo knew and preached this in a way that defined the 2010s and its obsession with efficiency.

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In her 2010 book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” Kondo chillingly put it this way: “The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.”

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For Kondo, what to get rid of and what to keep boiled down to a self-interrogation that was, on the surface, instinctual: “Does it spark joy?”

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