Word of the Day: unusual words you may not have heard of

[Pyan]

Dromomania: an uncontrollable urge to walk or wander about.

 

[Parson]

Hm! I know some sermons that suffer from a form of dromomania.

(I'd originally called it "The Columbus method of preaching. You wander about and eventually find a key and land on it.")

 

[JunkMonkey]

Agnotology: the study (and practice) of how ignorance and doubt is spread in society.

 

[Parson]

Agnotology: the study (and practice) of how ignorance and doubt is spread in society.

Ah! I see. This is a synonym for Social Media.

 

[CAOM]

Catharsis is the process of cleansing or altering one's consciousness through intense experiences.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Ah! I see. This is a synonym for Social Media.

Not totally, Social Media is (are?) just a method of transmission that has made the process easier. It's been going on for centuries, if not millenia. Pace the 'Mushroom Method' of management. "Keep 'em in the dark and occasionally shovel sh*t on them."

 

[Parson]

Not totally, Social Media is (are?) just a method of transmission that has made the process easier. It's been going on for centuries, if not millenia. Pace the 'Mushroom Method' of management. "Keep 'em in the dark and occasionally shovel sh*t on them."

Absolutely true, but Social Media has turned conspiracy thinking and unfounded speculation from a local phenomenon to a worldwide one with a corresponding increase in its dangers.

 

[Pyan]

Pace the 'Mushroom Method' of management. "Keep 'em in the dark and occasionally shovel sh*t on them."

The company I used to work for used the Kipper Method of management: two faced and no guts.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Absolutely true, but Social Media has turned conspiracy thinking and unfounded speculation from a local phenomenon to a worldwide one with a corresponding increase in its dangers.

I think Gutenberg let that cat out of the bag a long time ago. Before movable type that sort of thing (like everything else) had to be written out by hand.

 

[THX1138]

Quadrifid: split into four.

 

[Pyan]

Tintinnabulation: The sound of bells ringing.

 

[THX1138]

So, would Tintinnabulation Vespertilio: mean Bats in the Belfry?

"You seem to be suffering from a case of Tintinnabulation Vespertilio. Have two martinis and I'll call you in the morning."

 

[Harpo]

Fasciation

Fasciation - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Snicklefritz]

Fasciation

Fasciation - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Man, I saw that thing scampering through the skunk cabbage down by the swamp last night.

 

[Extollager]

Perichoresis, technically a theological term, but it is used in Arthur Machen's wonder tale "N" to refer to an interpenetration of dimensions.

 

[Parson]

Perichoresis, technically a theological term, but it is used in Arthur Machen's wonder tale "N" to refer to an interpenetration of dimensions.

You might know that this would be the one non-theological forum which would send me to the dictionary to understand a theological word. As far as I know, I've never come across it in three years of seminary and 40 plus years of ministry.

 

[Extollager]

You might know that this would be the one non-theological forum which would send me to the dictionary to understand a theological word. As far as I know, I've never come across it in three years of seminary and 40 plus years of ministry.

You're not Eastern Orthodox? ; )

 

[Guttersnipe]

Clinomania: The condition in which one wants to remain in bed all day after having woken up.

 

[Snicklefritz]

You might know that this would be the one non-theological forum which would send me to the dictionary to understand a theological word. As far as I know, I've never come across it in three years of seminary and 40 plus years of ministry.

Thomas Merton invested a lot time, contemplation and words on this concept.

 

[Ursa major]

The condition in which one wants to remain in bed all day after having woken up.

Some of the people who claim to have this condition are simply lying....