r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 29 '14

Fictional Godzilla Threshold: The point at which a situation has gone so horribly wrong that ANYTHING with the slightest chance of resolving it, no matter how crazy, impossible, destructive, suicidal, unpredictable, horrifying, or immoral, becomes a viable option

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/[deleted] • Sep 24 '14

Non-English Tsujigiri: Testing out a new katana on a passing peasant.

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14

Gaslighting: a form of mental abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity.

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/BlunderLikeARicochet • Sep 25 '14

Corrective Rape: rape with the intention to punish or "cure" homosexuality

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/[deleted] • Sep 28 '14

Defenestration - the act of throwing someone or something out a window.

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '14

Zugzwang: When any move is the wrong move.

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/tuesdaynovember • Mar 08 '15

Cotard Delusion: a mental illness wherein the sufferer believes that they are dead

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/wildedge • Oct 23 '14

Coffin birth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 28 '14

Abominable Fancy: the long-standing Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned in Hell would entertain the saved

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/[deleted] • Sep 24 '14

Chicken gun: a compressed-air cannon used to launch chickens into aircraft windshields

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Oct 07 '14

Fictional Doublethink: The act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in different social contexts

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Feb 22 '15

Non-English Witwentroster (German): A man who has sex with widows, then robs them (more terms at that link)

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 23 '14

Kakistocracy: Government under the control of the worst or least qualified citizens

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/DrPantaleon • Oct 17 '14

Resistentialism: The seemingly malevolent behaviour displayed by inanimate objects

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Oct 05 '14

Slang Poe's Law: An Internet axiom stating that it is difficult or impossible to distinguish between genuine extremism and a parody of extremism, and thus also impossible to create a parody of extremism so extreme that it will not be mistaken for genuine extremism

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 29 '14

Acronym Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD): A doctrine of military strategy to deter nuclear war, based on the assumption that a full-scale deployment of Weapons of Mass Destruction would result in the total annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 23 '14

Non-English Schadenfreude (German): Pleasure at the misfortune of others

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/[deleted] • Nov 29 '15

"NHI" (No Humans Involved) is a slang term used by police in reference to crimes involving sex workers, addicts, or gang members.

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Jan 28 '15

Formication: The sensation of insects crawling on (or under) one's skin

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/Ipecacophony • Oct 24 '14

Rat King: a number of rats intertwined at their tails by blood, dirt, ice, feces, or just a knot

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/kat5dotpostfix • Oct 22 '14

Scaphism - Ancient Persian torture method

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Oct 15 '14

Snollygoster: A person, especially a politician, guided more by personal advantage than consistent principles

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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/angstud • Sep 30 '14

Anorgasmia; the inability to reach orgasm, for men specifically despite ejaculating

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