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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.
Verboticisms
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Androit
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: an-droy-t
Sentence: He'll work through those figures without any problems; he's a complete androit ...
Etymology: adroit (accomplish with ability) + android (robot)
Farblightedness
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: far/blight/ed/ness/
Sentence: In a crowded room he stepped on the children in a hurry to meet the adults. It was a classic case of farblightedness.
Etymology: farsightedness + blight
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COMMENTS:
He obviously needed to wear blightfocals...:) - Alchemist, 2007-01-26: 08:15:00
Enblightening! - Discoveria, 2007-01-26: 10:03:00
I'd say it was deblightful! Especially when you consider those poor children... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:30:00
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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.
Etymology:
Tunnelvisionism
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: tunnel - vision - ism
Sentence: He has tunnelvisionism. He can't see the little things in life.
Etymology: tunnel-vision + ism!
Tunnelvisionary
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: tuhn-l-vizh-uh-ner-ee
Sentence: Where others can't see the forest for the trees, Jeromy doesn't even notice the trees. He just sees the money he can make when he builds his next mega-mall. He is such a tunnelvisionary that it doesn't bother him that only 3,000 people live within a 30-minute drive from his new site.
Etymology: tunnel vision (an extremely narrow or prejudiced outlook; narrow-mindedness) + visionary (a person of unusually keen foresight)
Eupaniminutiae
Created by: schizboot
Pronunciation: yü-pan-i-m&-'nü-sh(E-)&
Sentence: I have the gift of eupaniminutiae; I don't get bogged down in the everyday details of life.
Etymology: Eu(true/good)+pan(all)+im(un)+minutiae; as in, I took a crash course in Latin prefixes a few years ago.
Hypervatic
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: hype er vat ick
Sentence: Donald was always away with the faeries in a hypervatic moment.
Etymology: From Vatic: a prophetic person, pertaining to, or characteristic of a prophet. Also from hyper to over do it a bit. Because I tend to think the bigger picture is usually a more prophetic answer.
Hyperopeye
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: hi-per-OH-pie
Sentence: He hopped into bed to lay with his wife, turning a hyperopeye on the naked stranger already in bed with the woman.
Etymology: hyperopia [an abnormal condition of the eye in which vision is better for distant objects than for near objects] + eye; used as in "blind eye"
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!