Spannungsbogen
In the world that is Frank Herbert's Dune there are, to name a few, the ruthless Herkonnen, the feminine Bene Gesserits, the Arrakeens--and the Fremen.
Now, the Fremen have a quality called spannungsbogen. A word for "the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing." A kind of restraint or discipline. An anti-impulse...
But to coin such a word speaks to a cultural value. Do we have such a word in English for this kind of self-control?
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