I thought the word and the definition sounded beautiful, but then I also learned that it was coined in 2017 and has been accused of imposing outside culture. Namely, here is a criticism I found on Twitter and Reddit but without further attribution or detail:

Just wanted to share and see what the community thought about it.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Even English has a handful of words with accents. “Naïve” comes to mind. Of course, most people ignore those accents.

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      1 year ago

      IIRC the diaeresis is actually optional and “naive” is actually okay too. Technically even “cooperative” initially took one on the second O.

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          Fun fact, the “Académie française” (French language authority) dropped a bunch of accents with their “nouvelle grammaire”. A notable example are words with a circumflex accent on the O, like “hôpital” or “hôpital”. The accent was present to replace the “os” in the old spellings (hospital/hostel, the S was carried over from Latin), didn’t change the pronunciation in any way.