lachesism
The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.
rare, uncountable
I'd always been fascinated by lightning and had always had an unexplainable lachesism. I'm not sure why I had this desire to be struck by disaster and survive, to be struck by lightning in fact, […]
Where it comes from
From Lachesis + -ism; coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, with reference to the Ancient Greek goddess Lachesis, the Fate responsible for allotting the span of each mortal's life.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry lachesism (CC BY-SA 4.0).