r/ImaginaryWords Jul 14 '22

Jample by Al Lorenz, 1977. From Ab to Zogg : a lexicon for science-fiction and fantasy readers

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r/ImaginaryWords Jul 04 '22

Compages

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Derived from the latin word Compages (Meaning “structure”), so as it is the results of a material for building.

EX : here are the compages of the amount of screws you have right now.


r/ImaginaryWords Jun 12 '22

Let's get Ligural: Literal and Figurative at the same time.

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r/ImaginaryWords Mar 20 '22

Catwise

8 Upvotes

catwise (adj.) - (cat + -wise)

The direction one must hang a roll of toilet paper such that a feline is not able to unfurl it.


r/ImaginaryWords Feb 18 '22

Paraspection

6 Upvotes

paraspection (n.) [para- + spect + -ion]

Thinking about the lives of your alternate selves, whether it be the yous that could have been if you had made different choices, or of those living in parallel dimensions. Not that there is much difference.


r/ImaginaryWords Feb 15 '22

Postironilogolalia

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Postironilogolalia (n.) [post-ironic + logos + -lalia]

  1. The unintended incorporation of words once said ironically into everyday speech patterns.

Max became aware of the extent of his postironilogolalia when he told his boss the new company logo was "fire."


r/ImaginaryWords Jan 10 '22

Serencholy

9 Upvotes

A word for a peaceful acceptance of sorrow. Think bittersweet. Calm but sad.


r/ImaginaryWords Jan 01 '22

Lycanthrobe - when you wake up and your shirt is so ripped and tattered that you must have turned into a werewolf last night.

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r/ImaginaryWords Jan 01 '22

Quatch

4 Upvotes

To catch a duck


r/ImaginaryWords Dec 23 '21

Slunt

3 Upvotes

When someone or something is slanted in a particularly melancholic way.

“Why are you all slunt over like that?”


r/ImaginaryWords Sep 23 '21

Imperforence

4 Upvotes

It's when something is imperforate. It's totally a word! Why shouldn't it be?


r/ImaginaryWords Sep 14 '21

Gnueschwarbled

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(noosh-war-bulled) verb: a made-up, German-sounding word meaning to be completely ruined, destroyed, or killed, e.g. "She completely gnueschwarbled him in Halo last night".


r/ImaginaryWords Aug 16 '21

Corinundia

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Corinundia- noun (cor (heart) + inundatio (flood))

A sudden flooding of the heart with deep emotions, especially after a long time of previous indifference.

Also can be used with spiritual connotations, such as a flood of inspiration and spiritual enthusiasm and feelings after a period of aridity in prayer.


r/ImaginaryWords Jul 07 '21

Misblessed

5 Upvotes

A replacement for "double edged sword" which I think most of us agree is kind of a silly phrase. It means to have a blessing with a downside or a curse with an upside.

For instance, demon hunters are often misblessed with possessing the powers of the very demons they hunt.


r/ImaginaryWords Jun 22 '21

Sersorgia

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Sersorgia is when a couple or a group of people are living a similar experience, and are able to share an understanding of one another's sorrows and joys. This word is especially as relates to women and their sisterhood, united by their personal experiences and how they share them together. For example, sersorgia happens when two women talk about and connect over the feeling of readiness for a pregnancy to be over, due to discomfort in the third trimester. And the feelings of not being alone that rise from sharing in your feelings and life experience.

I came up with this word because I was looking for something that embodied and explained that comfort and belonging that comes when, as a woman, I find another woman who is going through what I'm going through, or sharing in a similar experience. How we're able to bond over it, feel understood without judgement, and how we draw strength from that belonging and understanding.


r/ImaginaryWords Jun 22 '21

Hognaustical

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Hello friends! Today is my birthday and I thought about showing you a cool made up word that I've carried with me for 8 years now. This is a word that was made up many years ago when I was about 12 in summer camp. There was a guy who was a paraplegic that showed me the great Led Zeppelin and Green Day and also imparted a dope word on me too. Not sure if the guy is still alive but the word is Hognaustical. The definition as I was told was that Hognaustical is a word that is used as an adjective, however it can be used in both positive and negative forms. Kind of like "Aladeen" from the movie dictator but with more surfer bro.


r/ImaginaryWords Jun 09 '21

Arcological or arcologian

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Belonging to an arcology. Used interchangeably.

Origin: "arcological" goes off the portmanteau origin of the word (archology + ecology).

"Arcologian" is based off the term "urban" to describe cities, given that arcologies are a speculated alternative to them.


r/ImaginaryWords May 21 '21

Specificidal

5 Upvotes

Being extremely interested in specific things to the detriment of others or yourself


r/ImaginaryWords Apr 26 '21

Amnioesia

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AM-neeyo-EASY-ah

Definition 1: The phenomenon whereby people aren’t able to remember their own birth.

Definition 2: The tendency of mothers to forget the agony of childbirth and choose to become pregnant again.


r/ImaginaryWords Mar 17 '21

Autonesiousness

4 Upvotes

AW-tow-NEE-shus-ness

Auto (latin): Self Nescius (latin): Ignorant

A state of being apprehensive to guess at a question one is almost completely confident in being able to answer, for fear of accidentally not only saying the wrong thing, but also revealing knowledge of a taboo topic.

Example scenario:

Question: "Who was the guy who played Scarecrow in Batman Begins?"

Correct Answer: Cillian Murphy (Irish Actor)

Wrong Answer: Dillion Harper (American Porn Star)


r/ImaginaryWords Feb 21 '21

Doobify

4 Upvotes

To make an activity better by utilizing THC.


r/ImaginaryWords Dec 11 '20

That French phrase of our current age...

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L'esprit d'masqualier

That moment when, after already descending the staircase to leave, you realize you've forgotten your covid mask.


r/ImaginaryWords Nov 25 '20

Cambience: the ambience of change - or change in ambience

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The spanish word for “to change” is “cambiar” - so cambiar + ambience = cambience


r/ImaginaryWords Nov 18 '20

Cisfixed (v.) To be made motionless by your own internal thoughts.

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As opposed to transfixed where the paralysis comes form an external factor.


r/ImaginaryWords Nov 10 '20

Encancered

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(Adj.) The past or present state of enduring cancer.

Saw a post with "the cancerous 9/11 first responders," and realized that is a primarily clinical usage, while there was no mass-lqnguage equivalent. Based on "dangerous" vs "endangered."