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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.
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Focussedness
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: fow kus sed nessss
Sentence: when the stuff hits the fan you can the one wuth focussedness from the ones with fauxcussedness
Etymology: focus cussedness
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
Hyperopeye
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"
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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Beelinear
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bēlinēər
Sentence: When it comes to playing video games Josh is strictly beelinear. Silly details like paying the rent, grooming, paying attention to his girlfriend (when he had one) and sometimes even eating just are not important once he gets started.
Etymology: beeline (a straight line between two places) + linear (arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line)
Lokovit
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: lo-ke-vit
Sentence: They all lokovit
Etymology: look over it
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)
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)
Obliviprowess
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ob livi pro wess
Sentence: Buzz had a need for mead. And he could not make mead without honey. Thankfully his obliviprowess helped him ignore the hundreds of bee stings he got while harvesting the honey. He would have his mead, comb what may...
Etymology: Oblivious (Lacking all memory; forgetful;Lacking conscious awareness; unmindful) & Prowess ( a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation)
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!