ASMR

Initialism of American Society of Mining and Reclamation.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of American Society of Mining and Reclamation.

Noun

  1. Initialism of age-specific mortality rate.
  2. Initialism of accelerating seismic moment release.
  3. Initialism of autonomous sensory meridian response (“a claimed biological phenomenon involving a pleasurable tingling in response to a stimulus”).
    • The ASMR community struggles with popular perception of the transgressive nature of their shared pleasure, which by its public nature is what Berlant and Warner call "nonstandard intimacy." - 2014, Joceline Andersen,...
    • You might say [Bob] Ross was the first ASMRtist, as those who produce ASMR videos like to be called. - 2015 April 21, Tanis Fowler, “Relax, you may have ASMR: YouTube videos sparking pleasurable, hypnotic-like sensation...
    • “The ASMR community goes against that mainstream assertion that the internet is making everybody less connected, and hurting relationships,” Herndon says. “People are making these videos at their desks, putting them...
  4. Content, especially audio, intended to elicit the autonomous sensory meridian response.

Forms

ASMRs

Derived

ASMRotica ASMRtist

Wikipedia

ASMR