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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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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)
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.
Hocusfocus
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ho-kuss-FO-kuss
Sentence: Bob was able to tune out the annoying fire alarms and dense smoke because at that particular moment, he was hocusfocusing on world peace.
Etymology: hocus pocus, focus
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COMMENTS:
Hey purpleairtichokes, That's a magical word! If only I could hocusfocus on my work, then I might get something done... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:08:00
I hear ya! Verbotomy.com is a constant source of internetference with my work. - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 07:59:00
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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
Foculizing
Created by: Ishepoh
Pronunciation: (foe-cull-i-zing)
Sentence: You need to be foculizing on the project that was given to you.
Etymology: From the word focus, the suffix -ize, and the suffix -ing.
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!
Lokovit
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: lo-ke-vit
Sentence: They all lokovit
Etymology: look over it
Properception
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Propp-purr-sep-shun
Sentence: His lack of properception is a severe handicap at work, but he can talk for hours about the exact arrangement of peanuts in the snack bowl.
Etymology: Proper+perception. Actually, properception is a technical term in psychiatry, which means "capturing the world and the internal needs" as opposed to perception, "capturing the world and the external stimulus" (Wikipedia).
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COMMENTS:
Inspired by, but not to be confused with "proprioception", which is the ability to sense the position and orientation of your muscles/body. - Discoveria, 2007-01-26: 06:20:00
Good one Discoveria! Very well researched! Detailed! Obviously you don't suffer from properception... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:02:00
Thanks - though of course I didn't do that much research - Verboogle picked it up! - Discoveria, 2007-01-26: 09:57:00
Wow, that Verboogle is everywhere! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:36:00
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Examoramic
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ex - am - or - am - ik
Sentence: Justine has started to take the examoramic view of things recently. She glosses over all details; seeing only the forest and missing all the trees in it.
Etymology: examine, panoramic
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!