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DEFINITION: v. To have difficulty recognizing, and correctly interpreting, human facial expressions. n. A person who cannot read faces.
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Wreckognize
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: rek - ug - niz
Sentence: To wreckognize is to not recognize.... Your ability to recognize someone's face or their expressions is ruined or destroyed. It does not mean that you are blind; but it probably does mean that you are not perceptive.
Etymology: wreck, recognize
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COMMENTS:
Love it - Nosila, 2009-11-25: 23:09:00
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Confround
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: con-FROWND
Sentence: Mick tended to confround around new people, especially when seeing smiles and shocked expressions.
Etymology: confound (to confuse) + frown
Mienconstrue
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: mean-con-strew
Sentence: Kerrod refused to admit that he had mienconstrue. He insisted he was just perception-challenged.
Etymology: mien + misconstrue
Emogerance
Created by: lv071100
Pronunciation: ee-mog-er-ants
Sentence: The boy is full of emogerance.
Etymology:
Recognotso
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: rek-ehg-NAWT-so
Sentence: Milton was an absolute recognotso when it came to reading facial expressions and body language, always learing after the fact that the conclusions he had reached regarding others were simply 'not so'.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'recognition', 'not' and 'so'
Dyslexivefaceology
Created by: Wordsmith
Pronunciation: dis-lex-ive-face-all-o-gee
Sentence: The poor boy suffers from Dyslexivefaceology.
Etymology: From the English "dys" and the Greek "lexis"
Unfacialable
Created by: Eequal5
Pronunciation: un-fase-y-al-able
Sentence: He is so unfacialalbe that he couldnt tell his mom was angry.
Etymology: un:not fac:face ial:Expression able:able
Misblunderstand
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Miss-blun-der-stand
Sentence: No wonder Greg never got a girlfriend, whenever he approached a girl he fancied with one of his cheesy chat-up lines, he would completely misblunderstand that a cringe meant 'GO AWAY' and not a smile and a green light to carry on.
Etymology: Blunder (a mistake + Misunderstand (fail to understand correctly) = Misblunderstand
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2008-07-09: 07:10:00
Love it...will use it myself! - Nosila, 2008-07-09: 20:43:00
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Cuepid
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: cue-pid
Sentence: Cupid's arrows never came to Rick because he was too cuepid to see that Cindy was giving him her "come hither" look. Thinking she was about to sneeze, he pulled out his H1N1 mask, hand sanitizer and his pocket pack of Lysol before heading toward the bar, leaving her quite puzzled.
Etymology: cue: signal, prompt, hint + stupid: lacking common sense, perception or normal intelligence
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COMMENTS:
cuete word - Nosila, 2009-11-25: 23:06:00
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Figgliciocous
Created by: brandonmarrotte
Pronunciation: (Fig-gilo-cious)
Sentence: I am figgiloucious because I can not recognize facial expressions of my many wives.
Etymology: Fig-to see, Gillo- to misunderstand
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "I, Row-Boat", where a sentient, and very sensitive Row-Boat has some difficulty reading a woman's facial expressions. See the full story in Overclocked. Thank you Cory! ~ James
MIENBLIND is very good- and far more cerebral than my entry. Good work, Ozziebob.
MaybeLater_x - 2008-08-19: 19:10:00
Visagenary is also a play on Imaginary, nay?
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James
ldikarev - 2012-09-06: 16:44:00
ldikarev - 2012-09-06: 16:45:00
Prosopagnosia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing") is a disorder of fa