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DEFINITION: To measure your success, or evaluate your self-worth, based on what other people think.
Verboticisms
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Estemialism
Created by: goatmonkey
Pronunciation: ess-stem-ee-yall-is-m
Sentence: Go to a beauty pageant and you will find a whole bunch of estemeists. A person who uses estimialism is an estemialist.
Etymology: esteem + ialism
Falothin
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Fa-lo-thin
Sentence: They are all fault looking en thinking wrong
Etymology:
Insecuridation
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: in-se-KYUR-i-DAY-shun
Sentence: Though lovely, it's clear the three woen in today's graphic suffer from insecuridation.
Etymology: from "insecurity" and "validation"
Peervaluate
Created by: evhershey
Pronunciation: peer-val-you-ate
Sentence: Making heads turn as she entered a room allowed her to smile inwardly at the way others peervaluated her.
Etymology: peer + evaluate
Egoutruvate
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation: e/gahw/trew/vate
Sentence: Shannon tended to egoutruvate too much and it often got her down since she couldn't read people properly - even if they were a Dr. Seuss book.
Etymology: From the words Ego, outer, and evaluate.
Esteemate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ess-teem-ate
Sentence: in order to esteemate his progress,he would often surprise his dinner guests with a pop quiz on how they felt about him
Etymology: estimate, esteem
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Peerpoint
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: peer-poynt
Sentence: Nigel's reliance on peerpointing was fatally flawed; his inability to recognise that everyone thought he was a twat meant he rated himself far too highly
Etymology: peer (peer group) + point (score)
Oneuppish
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: one up ish
Sentence: maralyn was oneupish she always wanted to be better than the other girl.
Etymology: one upmanship...
Egother
Created by: vixphilia
Pronunciation: EEE-gOH-ther
Sentence: I don't care about how you look like. Stop egothering yourself, it's cheap.
Etymology: Ego + Other
