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DEFINITION: v. To have difficulty recognizing, and correctly interpreting, human facial expressions. n. A person who cannot read faces.
Verboticisms
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Visagenius
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vis a jeen ee us
Sentence: Jerome thought he was such a visagenious when it came to reading the faces of young ladies he fancied. He could not have been more wrong. He always misinterpreted a "yikes" look as enthusiasm. Which explains why he never has a date...
Etymology: Visage (face;countenance) & Genius (unusual mental ability;a natural talent)
Disfacism
Created by: Jocoman
Pronunciation: dis-face-ism
Sentence: Jill's new boss hired her due to his extreme disfacism, causing him to believe her blinking was winking.
Etymology: Dysfunctional + face + ism.
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COMMENTS:
I realized after creating this word that it should actually be spelled dysfacism, proving that I'm retarded on my very first post. - Jocoman, 2007-05-09: 21:26:00
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Impearance
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: im-PAIR-ence
Sentence: Her impearance led me to believe she was a psychopath on the verge of killing me... it turned out that she loved me.
Etymology: Impair (difficulty) + appearance (expression)
Ircomprehensible
Created by: AlyssaluvsBTR12
Pronunciation: ir-compre-hens-ible
Sentence: John has an ircomprehensible brain, for he cannot understand Jen's expression.
Etymology: Ir- Not compre-figure hens-out ible- 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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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