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'What details?'

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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Coolwow

Created by: timmy

Pronunciation: Cool wow

Sentence: Thats cool wow.

Etymology: For something that's awesome.

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- timmy, 2007-01-28: 12:59:00

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Visionairy

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: viz zhun err ee

Sentence: Vincent was a visionairy who worked in an apiary. No, he did not look after apes, he was a beekeeper, who was always abuzz with new ideas. He would drone on and on to his co-workers about his revolutionary ideas, like planting mini-video cams on the bees' backs to make cute movies for the Internet. He would wax poetic about spelling bees...bees who would spell out words. His friends thought he'd bee better off using a comb on his hair, playing his Queen cd's while actually becoming a worker and using some cream on those hives!

Etymology: Visionary (a person with unusual powers of foresight;a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible adjective:not practical or realizable; speculative) & Airy (not practical or realizable; speculative;characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air)

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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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Darving

Created by: lilty4422

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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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Rivarenigipt

playdohheart

Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: riv-ar-eni-gipt

Sentence: In a total state of rivarenigipt, she decided to post words on Verbotomy instead of working on her thesis.

Etymology: Not just a river in Egypt... denial: the real opiate of the masses.

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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

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Defiddlyfazedness

jonzerofourteen

Created by: jonzerofourteen

Pronunciation: dee fid uhl lee fay zed ness

Sentence: Gary just could understand Karen’s panic. She seemed to be obsessing over the slightest detail. Karen obviously lacked Gary’s defiddlyfazedness when it came to wedding preparations.

Etymology: de (away from, off) + fiddly (requiring close attention to detail) + fazed (to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted) + ness (state of being)

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Incongnorance

protothor

Created by: protothor

Pronunciation: In-kog-nor-ans

Sentence: Through sheer incongnorance, Mike was able to ignore the throbbing of this severed foot as he placed first in the special olympics.

Etymology: Incongruous;out of place; inappropriate; unbecoming. Ignorance; to be ignorant; The condition of being unaware, or uninformed.

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Hyperopeye

ohwtepph

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"

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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!