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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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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)
Focussedness
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: fow kus sed nessss
Sentence: when the stuff hits the fan you can the one wuth focussedness from the ones with fauxcussedness
Etymology: focus cussedness
Panoramore
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: pan-oh-rah-moor-eh
Sentence: he continued to focus on coming up with a clever word for the new definition, even while the children ran riot around him....he couldn't help but see what was really important for he was blessed with panoramore
Etymology: panorama, amore[love]
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COMMENTS:
Funny sentence!!! Toss the kids a box of Cheerios and turn on Sponge Bob. - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 06:13:00
Hey rikboyee! How did you know what was happening at my house this morning? - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:05:00
- rikboyee, 2007-01-27: 18:41:00
we are all similarly afflicted... its hard work being defined by your definitions - rikboyee, 2007-01-27: 18:43:00
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Beelinear
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bēlinēər
Sentence: When it comes to playing video games Josh is strictly beelinear. Silly details like paying the rent, grooming, paying attention to his girlfriend (when he had one) and sometimes even eating just are not important once he gets started.
Etymology: beeline (a straight line between two places) + linear (arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line)
Illdelusional
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: ill-de-loo-shun-al
Sentence: Bill was illdelusional in his goals and often missed the details that were his undoing.
Etymology: illusion + delusional
Minutiopia
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: mi-nyu-she-o-pi-a
Sentence: Larry's lack of ability to see the small picture was due to his minutiopia. Mary took him to the opthamologist, but unfortunately, there was no script there to help his oversightedness.
Etymology: minutia: a small or trivial detail + opia: suffix that indicates a visual condition or defect(as in myopia - the inability to see distances or short sighted)
Stingleminded
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation:
Sentence: John's stingleminded approach to the problem was rewarded with a posthumous award.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
good one galwaywegian! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:33:00
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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.
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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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!
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!