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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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Nittygritimpairment
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: nit-ee-grit-im-pair-ment
Sentence: His nittygritimpairment had previously been misdiagnosed as wholistopia. Whatever the cause, he was excellent at keeping the overall objective uppermost in their minds.
Etymology: nitty gritty (details) + impairment (symptom of reduced quality)
Concenstapation
Coolwow
Created by: timmy
Pronunciation: Cool wow
Sentence: Thats cool wow.
Etymology: For something that's awesome.
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COMMENTS:
- timmy, 2007-01-28: 12:59:00
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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:
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
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)
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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COMMENTS:
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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Diminutae
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: dim-inoot-ay
Sentence: "What trees?", he asked. "All I can see is the wood", he added, with diminutae
Etymology: dim = to darken minutae = excessive detail
Buzzbiggle
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: buzz-big-le
Sentence: He buzzbiggled his way into the honey pot, but was sad to discover it wasn't as sweet as he thought it would bee.
Etymology: buzz+big
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!