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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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Confuzzling
Created by: onceinabluemoon88
Pronunciation: Con - fuss - ling
Sentence: "this is so confuzzling"
Etymology: baby talk for confussing
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COMMENTS:
It's a great word! Not confuzzling at all... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:06:00
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Concepsualisation
Created by: lilian
Pronunciation: con-sep-su-ul-ize-a-shun
Sentence: 'Being a project manager; concepsualisation becomes a crucial skill in coordinating the team, otherwise you'll never succeed'
Etymology: Concept & visualisation
Minutiaverse
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)
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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COMMENTS:
I think Buddha is sitting on a bumble bee. - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:31:00
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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!
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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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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Concentraition
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Con-sen-trey-shun
Sentence: Martin has a unique power of concentraition wherein he is able to ignore any and all manner of chaos surrounding him and bear down on the even the smallest of details at hand.
Etymology: Blend of Concentrate (to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus) and Trait (a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature)
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
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!