Word of the day

[Alice]

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

[Alice]

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.

[FoolofaTook]

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

[FoolofaTook]

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

[reprise85]

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.

[topleybird]

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

[FoolofaTook]

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

[FoolofaTook]

Fluvial

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

[Alice]

Originally Posted by topleybird

sesquipedalian: ... In order to use it, you have to be it

This is great

[Alice]

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

Uniparous: producing a single young at a birth.

[Alice]

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

[teh b0lly!!1]

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'

[reprise85]

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


that's how i'm gonna go

[vixnix]

floccinaucinihilipilification

the action or habit of estimating something as worthless

[FoolofaTook]

coprolite: fossilized excrement

[reprise85]

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

[FoolofaTook]

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)

[FoolofaTook]

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

[Alice]

Originally Posted by vixnix

floccinaucinihilipilification

the action or habit of estimating something as worthless

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

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

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)

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

[Alice]

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.

[FoolofaTook]

wow

so this is how it's going to be huh

[FoolofaTook]

abiogenesis: the origin of life from nonliving matter

[ella]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

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)

Originally Posted by reprise85

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

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

[FoolofaTook]

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.

[FoolofaTook]

Speciation: the process of biological species formation

[Alice]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

i was about to berate you

Took pls

[Alice]

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

[Alice]

That's Genesis 9:7

[ilikeplanets]

eurhythmic - harmonious, with an aesthetically pleasing rhythm of structure

fugacious - fleeting, having a tendency to disappear

elysian - heavenly, paradisaical