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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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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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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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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.
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)
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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Blindsight
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: blInd-sIte
Sentence: David sits in blindsight, intensely focused on his favorite soap opera, as Jill tries to shoo the giant spider crawling on his face
Etymology: blindside - cannot see something coming, sight
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COMMENTS:
May David has a spider on his face because his mind is full of cobwebs.... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:33:00
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Eupaniminutiae
Created by: schizboot
Pronunciation: yü-pan-i-m&-'nü-sh(E-)&
Sentence: I have the gift of eupaniminutiae; I don't get bogged down in the everyday details of life.
Etymology: Eu(true/good)+pan(all)+im(un)+minutiae; as in, I took a crash course in Latin prefixes a few years ago.
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)
Fixoid
Created by: paperhoard
Pronunciation: fix-oid
Sentence: He was able to fixoid on her cleavage like a deer caught in a head light despite repeated warnings from his giggling coworkers.
Etymology: fixate - to concentrate or focus + avoid - to ignore.
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COMMENTS:
I bet he can bambooble with the best of them as well! (Bambooble - to "accidentally" bump into a woman's breasts.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 07:55:00
Absolutely - poor Jim.... - paperhoard, 2007-01-26: 09:43:00
I wish I could devise some sort of nippalarm so I could see it coming...BEEP, BEEP, BEEP! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 10:49:00
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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!