Cool new words you've learned

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Today I learned the word “yedasentience”

It refers to “an internally generated feeling of knowing which provides a phenomenological sign of goal-attainment”. It was coined by researchers into OCD, who hypothesise that OCD patients lack this, and therefore must keep coming back to their compulsion in a vain attempt to gain the psychological check-mark that their brain is expecting as a signal of “done that”

Not in the dictionary yet, but Google Scholar is all over it, so I’m calling it a Real Word ™

What’s the coolest word you’ve learned recently?

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I’m afraid I misread the word as “Yadasentience”, and thought it meant a deep familiarity with Seinfeld.

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Crepuscular. Animals that are most active at dawn and dusk are not diurnal or nocturnal, they are crepuscular.

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Not to be confused with Yodasentience, deep knowledge of something else which is…

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Demisexual, has nothing to do with Demi Moore, means your prospective partner has to journey all the way through the friendzone before sexy times can happen. It’s categorized as a variety of asexuality.

Learned that word s couple weeks ago.

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A phrase, not a word:* Brexit wound. *

Usually in the plural, for obvious reasons. The meaning is also obvious.

Not sure why I saw it for the first time just a few days ago. It’s a fairly obvious neologisim (one I should have thought of myself, really), so you would have thought it would have been in circulation for quite a while.

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It’s not new but I like the fact that someone felt it was worthwhile to coin a word for it:

apricity: The sun’s warmth in winter.

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My father was reading a book the other day on Greek mythology, and he called me over to try to figure out what “autochthonous” meant. I thought it could be about burying yourself, or maybe digging yourself up.

Turns out it just means “indigenous”. Normally I’m all for expanding one’s vocabulary, but I think the writer was just being pretentious here.

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*That’s *a thing now? I haven’t been keeping up with the various varieties of -sexual that are around these days, but I would have thought that “ordinary human being” would have covered that one.

I like this one, and am stealing :wink:

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And the Twilight series is crapuscular.

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Tattoo. I’m familiar with the skin art, but not with the other definition until I re-read “The Tell-Tale Heart” (and had to look it up, since the word made no sense in the context) where I came upon the alliterative meaning of ‘rapid rhythmic rapping.’

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From what I understand, demisexual means you literally are incapable of feeling sexual attraction for someone you don’t know. Something like that.

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It’s the French word for “aboriginal people”. We use it in the Constitution of Canada.

Bugger of a word for an anglo to say.

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It also means a bagpipe-fest in the evening. Reputedly from a Dutch phrase for “turn off the taps”, i.e. the pubs are close and time to get back to base.

See the wiki entry for the Edinburgh Tattoo:

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Sesquipedalian - a foot and a half long. Also words that are unnecessarily long and obscure.

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Yes, this, my explanation was not the textbook definition.

Aspidistra, I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s something that is easily obscured by other things like anxieties, ease of physical stimulation into arousal, for males anyway, things like that.

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I’m currently writing a novel set in 1830 and thus and looking up slang from the era. What’s amazing his how imaginative some of the terms are, especially for people being hanged and, of course, for drinking.

Today, it was lobcock. It means a lazy and idle man. Also a limp penis after sex.

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Pettifogging. Learned it on this board. I would try to describe it’s meaning, but I know a number of you will be nit-picky of anything I write.

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apocolocyntosis

I heard this on an old episode of Good Job, Brain.

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Not one I’ve learned recently but one that often pops up in lists like this:

Defenestration

Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.[1] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618, which became the spark that started the Thirty Years’ War.