Qualthwar's Word of the Day

[Nachimir]

Copernican

Relating to the Astronomer Copernicus or his pivotal discovery that the Earth was not the centre of the solar system. Contrasted by "Pre-Copernican", which I think is quite an adequate term for someone who thinks, like, the whole f*cking world revolves around them or something.

Example: "He was a Visionary Philosopher of a Pre-Copernican bent".

 

[Stilgar]

merkin

a pubic wig for women

 

[ReD_Fist]

Proudly:

These adjectives mean characterized by an inflated ego and disdain for what one considers inferior: Proud can suggest justifiable self-satisfaction but often implies conceit:

another use of ignore on these forums at nalicity.

 

[KJAX]

Adduction

1) To draw inward toward the median axis of the body or toward an adjacent part or limb.
2) A chemical compound that forms from the addition of two or more substances.

 

[QUALTHWAR]

merkin

a pubic wig for women

merkin:

A pubic wig for women.

#791

 

[QUALTHWAR]

Maudlin:

Effusively or tearfully sentimental: “displayed an almost maudlin concern for the welfare of animals”

 

[Manticore]

solipsism

n. Philosophy

1. The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.


[Latin slus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European Roots + Latin ipse, self + -ism.]

solip·sist n.

solip·sistic adj.

 

[KJAX]

gentrification

n.

The restoration and upgrading of deteriorated urban property by middle-class or affluent people, often resulting in displacement of lower-income people.

 

[QUALTHWAR]

Ethereal:

Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.
Highly refined; delicate. See Synonyms at airy.

Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.
Not of this world; spiritual.
Chemistry. Of or relating to ether.

 

[Gnome and Sapper]

par·sec ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pärsk)
n.
A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is one second of arc and equal to 3.258 light-years, 3.086 × 1013 kilometers, or 1.918 × 1013 miles.

 

[Manticore]

Dichotomy

di·chot·o·my

n. pl. di·chot·o·mies

1. Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions: “the dichotomy of the one and the many” (Louis Auchincloss).

2. Astronomy. The phase of the moon, Mercury, or Venus when half of the disk is illuminated.

3. Botany. Branching characterized by successive forking into two approximately equal divisions.

 

[Nachimir]

Trichotomy: Like a Dichotomy, but one thing bigger

 

[oosyxxx]

quadchotomy damage: double the destroying diablolical death damage of a dichotomy while said with the coolest voice eva

 

[Manticore]

frazzled.

fraz·zle

v. fraz·zled, fraz·zling, fraz·zles
v. tr.

1. To wear away along the edges; fray.
2. To exhaust physically or emotionally.

 

[Nachimir]

Bumph

An abbreviation of "Bum Fodder", used to deride published material.

 

[Manticore]

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creep
1. To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees.

2.
1. To move stealthily or cautiously.
2. To move or proceed very slowly: Traffic creeps at that hour.

3. Botany.
1. To grow or spread along a surface, rooting at intervals or clinging by means of suckers or tendrils.
2. To grow horizontally under the ground, as the rhizomes of many plants.
4. To slip out of place; shift gradually.
5. To have a tingling sensation, made by or as if by things moving stealthily: a moan that made my flesh creep.


n.

1. The act of creeping; a creeping motion or progress.
2. Slang. An annoyingly unpleasant or repulsive person.
3. A slow flow of metal when under high temperature or great pressure.
4. A slow change in a characteristic of electronic equipment, such as a decrease in power with continued usage.
5. Geology. The slow movement of rock debris and soil down a weathered slope.
6. creeps Informal. A sensation of fear or repugnance, as if things were crawling on one's skin: That house gives me the creeps.

 

[ReD_Fist]

ut

n. Music
A syllable representing the tone C, otherwise represented by do, in the French system of solmization.

 

[KJAX]

hegemony

n. pl. he·gem·o·nies

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

 

[KJAX]

miasma

n. pl. mi·as·mas or mi·as·ma·ta

1) A noxious atmosphere or influence: “The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere... like a coiling miasma” (Louis Auchincloss).

2)
a. A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.
b. A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation: wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.

 

[Nachimir]

c. A staple of especially awful goth poetry.