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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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Concenstapation

Created by: tommyboy

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COMMENTS:

funny word! - jrogan, 2009-08-28: 22:34:00

Love it - isn't this a good diarrhena for your creativity??? - Nosila, 2009-08-28: 23:44:00

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Biggiepie

Created by: Djmolls

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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)

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Farblightedness

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: far/blight/ed/ness/

Sentence: In a crowded room he stepped on the children in a hurry to meet the adults. It was a classic case of farblightedness.

Etymology: farsightedness + blight

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He obviously needed to wear blightfocals...:) - Alchemist, 2007-01-26: 08:15:00

Enblightening! - Discoveria, 2007-01-26: 10:03:00

I'd say it was deblightful! Especially when you consider those poor children... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:30:00

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Microblindness

Created by: cryptc

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Sentence: Dave never bothered with the little things, so his friends suspected he was afflicted by microblindness.

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Minutiopia

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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)

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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

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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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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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Stingleminded

Created by: galwaywegian

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Sentence: John's stingleminded approach to the problem was rewarded with a posthumous award.

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good one galwaywegian! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:33:00

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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!