Nanay

American  

[nuh-nahy] / nəˈnaɪ /

Or Nanai

noun

plural

Nanays,

plural

Nanay

1. a member of a Tungusic people, traditionally hunters and fishermen, who inhabit the lower Amur Valley in southeastern Siberia and northeastern Manchuria.

2. the language of the Nanays.

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Example Sentences

In a piece for the Psychology Today website, Bence Nanay summarized it thusly: “When you do get to stand in front of the Taj Mahal, this moment will never live up to the idealized image that is the goal state of your desire. There are wasps. Taxi drivers keep on bugging you to get them to be your tour guide. You have a headache. You need to pee. And so on.”

From MarketWatch

“Daydreaming is not a pointless and idle activity. It has great impact on how all the things we have perceived before are organized and made sense of,” writes Cambridge University professor Bence Nanay for Psychology Today.

From Salon

Cambridge professor Bence Nanay: "In the last decade or so, the time we spend daydreaming or mind-wandering has seriously diminished."

From Salon

Nanay’s analysis follows recent findings from Harvard Medical School on the fascinating new neuroscience data we’re discovering about daydreaming.

From Salon

I think of my stepmother, whom I call nanay, my mother, a name I never called my own birthmother, and I feel the same contentious emotions.

From Salon