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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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Disfacadiology
Created by: zrotv
Pronunciation: dis - fa- say -de -ol -i -gee
Sentence: I thought I knew what the smile meant, but I suffer from disfacadiology. (Also: I am disfacadilogical)
Etymology: dis + facade + ology
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
Indisgrimacenation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/dis/grim/ass/nay/shun
Sentence: His lack of indisgrimacenation led to many embarrassing encounters at the singles bar.
Etymology: indiscrimination (making no distinctions, confused) + grimace (facial expression)
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COMMENTS:
vERY NICE. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-10: 05:28:00
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Misface
Created by: autophile
Pronunciation: miss-FACE
Sentence: Ever since Myron realized that he misfaced regularly in face-to-faces, his prefered interface space was the clean textual context of instant messaging.
Etymology: "Mis-", prefix meaning bad, wrongly, failure, and "-face" from both "interface" and plain ol' "face".
Illitellate
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: ih-lit-el-it
Sentence: Big papa Stevenson had done his homework, watched all the film and read all the books. He went all in with his ace high, convinced he had the best hand. When the straight flush, full house and three of a kind were revealed, he started searching wikipedia for a cure to being illitellate.
Etymology: Illiterate - Tell
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"
Emotionull
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: iˈmō sh ənəl
Sentence: Rudy is the perfect person to work the exchange desk. He is absolutely emotionull. He doesn*t get rattled by angry, screaming customers because doesn*t understand those feelings. He never learned to read expressions. To him jovial looks just the same as irate. He has been taught to tense certain muscles in his face when working. He has been told that doing this looks something like a smile and that it will help in his job. Most of his clients leave semi-satisfied but creeped out by the look on his face.
Etymology: emotional (arousing or characterized by intense feeling) + null (lacking distinctive qualities; having no positive substance or content)
Emotimyopia
Created by: cohenarie
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Emotimyopically, Missy (who'd had a few too many) continued to flirt with the bartender, despite his sarcastic sneer and her friend's embarrased winces.
Etymology: Emotion and myopia, obviously
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