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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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Nayslaying
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: nay/slay/ing
Sentence: As a result of his nayslaying abilities, George figured the world would be a better place ...but what he hadn't counted on was the lack of sustained applause from the peanut gallery.
Etymology: nay + slaying
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
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
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)
Rivarenigipt
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.
Denyopia
Created by: kyotonils
Pronunciation: dee-ny-o'-pi-a
Sentence: Even after a panel of long-time experts advised him to pull out of Iraq, Bush's denyopia would not allow him to consider it.
Etymology: deny+opia (eye disorders such as myopia, near-sightedness, and presbyopia, inablilty to see presbyterians)
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COMMENTS:
Hey kyotonils, You should get a job as a speech writer at the white house! I'm sure the president would love to expand his vocabulary, and you could help him do it! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:14:00
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Treeblindness
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: TREE-blind-ness
Sentence: Al, a "can't see the forest for the trees" kinda guy, never made it to the campout because he spent all day assembling his survival kit. Jim, who suffered from treeblindness, got there early. So early that it was too dark to see the cliff he walked over.
Etymology: "Can't see the forest for the trees," reversed, + nightblindness
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COMMENTS:
Good one. - ErWenn, 2007-01-29: 00:34:00
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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)
Visionapiary
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vizhun ayp pee ar ree
Sentence: He made his money making honey. He was the first in his area to see the potential of fresh local honey products. He did not let little stings get him down. He was a visionapiary.
Etymology: Visionary (a person with unusual powers of foresight) & Apiary (beehive)
Bushvision
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: BOOSH-vizh-yun
Sentence: When Andy started using his shotgun to swat flies, we knew he'd become afflicted with bushvision.
Etymology: Bush + vision
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COMMENTS:
Yes, Andy used the big guns to shoot big picture... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 00:54:00
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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!