Word of the day
 

That's right. We're doing this. Post yer good words. All languages are welcome but please post definitions in English

Here's two to get us started:

Lassitude: a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.

Doggerel: comic verse composed in irregular rhythm.
verse or words that are badly written or expressed.

Taphonomy: 1. processes of fossilization 2. the study thereof

Eolian: borne, deposited, produced, or eroded by the wind

Constellation: 3. a group or configuration of ideas, feelings, characteristics, objects, etc., that are related in some way: e.g., a constellation of qualities that made her particularly suited to the job.

sesquipedalian: when applying it to words, it means polysyllabic or long

But I prefer when it's used to describe a person: someone who uses overly long-winded or big words

In order to use it, you have to be it

is that a subtle critique of the contributors to the word of the day thread?

Fluvial

1: of, relating to, or living in a stream or river
2: produced by the action of a stream

This is great

And reminds me of one I very much like the sound of:

Uniparous: producing a single young at a birth.

I really like the weird poetry of some French terms:

Papillon de nuit - a moth, literally a butterfly of the night
Pomme de terre - potato, literally apple of the earth

And some are just fun to say despite their decidedly unpoetic nature such as

Parapluie: an umbrella

derailleur: [from French] a mechanism for shifting gears on a bicycle that operates by moving the chain from one set of exposed gears to another

may also be referred to as Derai'

autodefenestration: (rare, nonce word) The act of hurling oneself from a window.


that's how i'm gonna go

floccinaucinihilipilification

the action or habit of estimating something as worthless

coprolite: fossilized excrement

sublimate: verb (used with object), sub·li·mat·ed, sub·li·mat·ing.
1. Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
2. Chemistry.
to sublime (a solid substance); extract by this process.
to refine or purify (a substance).
3. to make nobler or purer

i like all of the definitions

Homology: a similarity often attributable to common origin

Phylogeny: 1. the evolutionary history of a kind of organism 2. the history or course of the development of something (such as a word or custom)

tautology: needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word

Floccilation, more commonly known as carphology or carphologia - the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium

i came to this thread to post this right now, wtf. We picked the same word bro

Here's a good sister word

ontogeny: the development or course of development especially of an individual organism

Hendiadys - the expression of a single idea by two words connected with “and,” e.g., nice and warm, when one could be used to modify the other, as in nicely warm.

wow

so this is how it's going to be huh

abiogenesis: the origin of life from nonliving matter

I read this all as orgasm, and yes it made perfect sense.

i was about to berate you but then i noticed that the sun had set on the Lord's Hallowed Day. so it's fine, go ahead and wallow in your filth.

Speciation: the process of biological species formation

Took pls

"And you, be ye fruitful, and have hella orgasms; orgasm abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein."

That's Genesis 9:7

eurhythmic - harmonious, with an aesthetically pleasing rhythm of structure

fugacious - fleeting, having a tendency to disappear

elysian - heavenly, paradisaical