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DEFINITION: n. A special ability lets you focus on the big picture without getting distracted by those busy little details. v. To skip over the details while focusing on the big picture.

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Minutiaverse

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: mi-nū-shi-a-vûrs

Sentence: Rob believed that to get ahead in hedge fund management you really needed to minutiaverse.

Etymology: minutia (minute detail) + averse (disinclined, reluctant)

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Stingleminded

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation:

Sentence: John's stingleminded approach to the problem was rewarded with a posthumous award.

Etymology:

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good one galwaywegian! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:33:00

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Panoramosis

Created by: ArsMajika

Pronunciation: PAN-or-AM-OH-sis

Sentence: Tod has wicked panoramosis... keeps him on track, but he often misses out on the little things in life.

Etymology: pan- + Gk (h)órāma - all seeing; Gk ōsmos, thrust, push.

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Zenerosity

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: zen/rr/ah/si/ty

Sentence: His uncanny zenerosity enabled him to have an instant appreciation of the essential picture which he was always happy to pass on to others

Etymology: zen (a specific type of meditation) + generosity (being able to give)

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I think Buddha is sitting on a bumble bee. - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:31:00

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Blindsight

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: blInd-sIte

Sentence: David sits in blindsight, intensely focused on his favorite soap opera, as Jill tries to shoo the giant spider crawling on his face

Etymology: blindside - cannot see something coming, sight

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COMMENTS:

May David has a spider on his face because his mind is full of cobwebs.... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:33:00

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Microblindness

Created by: cryptc

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Dave never bothered with the little things, so his friends suspected he was afflicted by microblindness.

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Fixoid

Created by: paperhoard

Pronunciation: fix-oid

Sentence: He was able to fixoid on her cleavage like a deer caught in a head light despite repeated warnings from his giggling coworkers.

Etymology: fixate - to concentrate or focus + avoid - to ignore.

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I bet he can bambooble with the best of them as well! (Bambooble - to "accidentally" bump into a woman's breasts.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 07:55:00

Absolutely - poor Jim.... - paperhoard, 2007-01-26: 09:43:00

I wish I could devise some sort of nippalarm so I could see it coming...BEEP, BEEP, BEEP! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 10:49:00

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Properception

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Propp-purr-sep-shun

Sentence: His lack of properception is a severe handicap at work, but he can talk for hours about the exact arrangement of peanuts in the snack bowl.

Etymology: Proper+perception. Actually, properception is a technical term in psychiatry, which means "capturing the world and the internal needs" as opposed to perception, "capturing the world and the external stimulus" (Wikipedia).

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Inspired by, but not to be confused with "proprioception", which is the ability to sense the position and orientation of your muscles/body. - Discoveria, 2007-01-26: 06:20:00

Good one Discoveria! Very well researched! Detailed! Obviously you don't suffer from properception... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:02:00

Thanks - though of course I didn't do that much research - Verboogle picked it up! - Discoveria, 2007-01-26: 09:57:00

Wow, that Verboogle is everywhere! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:36:00

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Obliviprowess

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ob livi pro wess

Sentence: Buzz had a need for mead. And he could not make mead without honey. Thankfully his obliviprowess helped him ignore the hundreds of bee stings he got while harvesting the honey. He would have his mead, comb what may...

Etymology: Oblivious (Lacking all memory; forgetful;Lacking conscious awareness; unmindful) & Prowess ( a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation)

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Foculizing

Ishepoh

Created by: Ishepoh

Pronunciation: (foe-cull-i-zing)

Sentence: You need to be foculizing on the project that was given to you.

Etymology: From the word focus, the suffix -ize, and the suffix -ing.

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Comments:

ErWenn - 2007-01-27: 09:53:00
Lots of good ones today.

wordmeister - 2007-01-27: 23:48:00
Yeah, it's very confuzzling! There's a stingleminded farblightness to many of the words... Excellent!