Word of the Day: SCLEROTIC

Inflexible in the worst ways

sclerotic (adj) - grown hard, rigid, or unresponsive; afflicted with sclerosis; of or pertaining to the outer layer of the eye (sclera) [skli-rot-ik]

BREAKDOWN: SCLERO- (hard) + -TIC (pertaining to)

• sclerosis is pathological hardening of body tissue or, more generally, a resistance or inability to adapt

“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.” —Rem Koolhaas