尊い (tōtoi)

What it means

1. 1.

   So wonderful it hurts. Fandom vocabulary, said of an idol, a character or a pairing whose existence the speaker finds almost unbearably good.

Literally: Precious; sacred; exalted.

Examples with translations

• 今日のライブ、尊すぎて泣いた。

  Tonight's show was so perfect I cried.

• この二人の関係性が尊い。

  The relationship between these two is everything.

Where it comes from

A classical word for the sacred, borrowed by fandom in the 2010s with its reverence intact and its religion removed. The noun form 尊み follows the same -み pattern as わかりみ.

First attested: 2010s in this sense

Other forms

Romanised as:

tōtoi