a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful.
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Category: Definitions
Word Of The Evening: Glum
Word Of The Day: Djent
A form of heavy rock music featuring complex rhythms and distorted, low-pitched guitar sounds.
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Word Of The Day: Misconstrued
verb
Present: misconstrue
Past tense: misconstrued
Past participle: misconstrued
- interpret (something, especially a person’s words or actions) wrongly.
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Phrase Of The Day: “Fu** It!”
“When you have been injured and thrown down into a hole so deep that all you can try to do is dig your way out sideways with a spoon!”
(See 2002’s movie partial reference, “The Count of Monte Cristo”)
Word Of The Day: Shame
“Blame cast unfairly – where the victims are forced to carry the crimes’ burden of others’ wrongdoings and/or projections.”
Word Of The Day: Oblivion
noun1.the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening.”they drank themselves into oblivion”Similar:unconsciousnessinsensibilitystuporstupefactionsenselessnessblanknessdarknesscomablackoutobliviousnessunawarenessignoranceamnesiathe waters of LetheOpposite:consciousnessawareness2.historical•Lawamnesty or pardon.
Oxford Languages
(They are changing definitions as we knew them…how I meant it is missing = The Void)
Word Of The Day: Blanched
“Since when does it no longer mean shocked or having color drained from, for example?
As in sudden reaction leading to other reactions…”
(Lockdown, migraine, etc.)
Word Of The Day: Appeal
Attractive or interesting / A serious or urgent request.
Oxford Languages
(Language Is A Virus – Laurie Anderson)
I saw her live in a cozy theatre in Santa Cruz around 15 years ago. Superb.
Another Word Of The Day: Fantasy
“A way to cope with and survive despite the hardships of reality…though these days, reality is pressing to crush me.”
Word of The Day: Remnant
“As in, what little bit was left of supporting a woman’s pride.
A heavy blow – if she’d allowed herself to care for the loss.”
Word Of The Day: Premise
noun
- Logica previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion.”if the premise is true, then the conclusion must be true”
verb
- base an argument, theory, or undertaking on.
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Status Vs. Resources
“Aren’t they supposed to imply the same?”
Word Of The Day: Luscious
adjective
- (of food or wine) having a pleasingly rich, sweet taste.
- pleasingly rich and appealing strongly to the senses.
- very sexually attractive.
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(Oxford Languages)
Word Of The Day: Dire
adjective
- (of a situation or event) extremely serious or urgent.
- (of a warning or threat) presaging disaster.
Word Of The Day: Discovery
Disco
&
Very
“Vive ut vivas”
“Live that you may live”
“Live to live”
“Neo Zim Dweebie”
“Blast from the past.”
Word Of The Day: Sunder
verb
literary
- split apart.
Oxford Languages
Word Of The Day: Moniker
nickname
A moniker is a nickname or pet name for a person. People who are dating or friends often have monikers like “Sweetie” and “Schmoopie.” Some monikers are shortened versions of your name, like “Ed” or “Eddie” for “Edward.” Athletes and other famous people have many monikers.
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Term Of The Day: “Sky Puppies”
Moniker for lovely bats.
Word Of The Day: Synthesis
noun
- The combination of ideas to form a theory or system.”the synthesis of intellect and emotion in his work”
- The production of chemical compounds by reaction from simpler materials.
Oxford Languages
Word Of The Day: Hodge-Podge
noun
North American
noun: hodge-podge
- a confused mixture.
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Word Of The Day: Permutation
noun
- a way, especially one of several possible variations, in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged.
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Word Of The Day: Vacillating
verb
gerund or present participle: vacillating
- alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive.”I had for a time vacillated between teaching and journalism”
(Oxford Languages)
Word Of The Day: Eons
noun
plural noun: eons
- 1.an indefinite and very long period of time.”he reached the crag eons before I arrived”
- 2.Philosophy(in Neoplatonism, Platonism, and Gnosticism) a power existing from eternity; an emanation or phase of the supreme deity.
(Oxford Dictionary)
Word Of The Day: Defunct
No longer existing or functioning.
Oxford dictionary
Word Of The Day: Temperance
moderation, restraint
1. : control over one’s acts, thoughts, or feelings : moderation, restraint. 2. : the use of little or no alcoholic drink
Merriam-Webster dictionary
Word Of The Day: Queuing
I’m sorry, but it’s correct pronunciation – given how it is spelled – is “koo-eh-oo-ing.”
(Chuckles)
Phrase Of The Day: Adaptive Resilience
Adaptive resilience is the ability to recover from adversity, adapt and thrive. It builds the capacity to be productive, resourceful, and creative while dealing with changing circumstances or adversity.
Word Of The Day: Vox
Popular sentiment or opinion : the voice of the people · voice calling in the wilderness : a wise person whose counsel or warnings are ignored.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Leontomorphic Gnostic Demiurge
Leontomorphic – resembling or shaped like a lion
https://www.onelook.com/?loc=olthes4&w=leontomorphic
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Gnostic
adjective
noun
- an adherent of Gnosticism.
(Oxford)
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Demiurge
- a being responsible for the creation of the universe.
- (in Platonic philosophy) the Maker or Creator of the world.
- (in Gnosticism and other theological systems) a heavenly being, subordinate to the Supreme Being, that is considered to be the controller of the material world and antagonistic to all that is purely spiritual.
(Oxford)
A New Word: Consceptual
Conscious conceptualizing
Creationism
There is more than one use for this word.
It is the embodiment of artistic spirit within the self which must generate creations from its internal realm to give to external realms.
Harshad Number
In mathematics, a harshad number (or Niven number) in a given number base is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits when written in that base.
Wikipedia
(Laryy Niven, again?)
Materialism
What we can create in the material world.
Words of The Day
Popliteal fossa.
Consceptual Talisman
An item chosen to symbolize conscious conceptualization of putting power into one’s own hands.
I love it when I accidentally create new, more meaningful words.
Language is “living” and always evolving, afterall!
Word Of The Day: Excelsis
“In the highest degree”
(Merrium-Webster dictionary)
Word Of The Day: Ambiguity
The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
(Oxford languages)
Word Of The Day: Impassive
Not feeling or showing emotion.
(Oxford definitions)
Word Of The Day
Gubernatorial
Word Of The Day
Chrysanthemums
Parthogenesis
There is no daddy.
Adrenal Fatigue
A case of a “what the f***s?!” and lack of being able to respond to and/or do anything about it.
Dear Alex,
Perturbance is the name of this game – these forces that I am caught, struggling within.
But, I would have named it perturberance, for the state of being – within and without.
“Within” and “without” both expressing sense of loss’ emptiness – grasping in the “nothingness.”
Word Of The Day: Rish
Brave & dominant ruler, Sage, Saint, One who meditates on Lord’s Name, Seeker of enlightment.
Word Of The Day: Urdu
noun
- an Indic language closely related to Hindi but written in the Persian script and having many loanwords from Persian and Arabic. It is the official language of Pakistan, and is also widely used in India and elsewhere.”she posted statements in Hindi, English, and Urdu announcing her decision”
adjective
- relating to Urdu.”it is not just a bookshop but an institution where one got to meet noted writers and lovers of Urdu literature”
Oxford Languages
Sense-uality
Brimming with the hope of innocence awakened to the full glory of self’s empowerment.
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