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DEFINITION: n. The unnameable fear which overcomes one when a large silent UFO cruises arrogantly overhead. v. To be frightened by the huge flying objects which exist (for the most part) in your imagination.
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Paranormia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: par-uh-NOR-mya
Sentence: Felicity was again experiencing a severe bout of paranormia, fearing an assault by imaginary objects from above that only she could see and sense.
Etymology: Blend of 'paranormal' (Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation) and 'paranoia' (A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution)
Ufobia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: yoo-foh-bee-uh
Sentence: Ginny has a bad case of UFObia. She is afraid of anything she can't immediately identify that is airborne. Just last week she had a screaming hissy fit when a plastic grocery bag blew her way unexpectedly.
Etymology: UFO (unidentified flying object) + phobia (fear)
Saucerphobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sos er fobe eeya
Sentence: When Susan was outside, she often experienced saucerphobia, that fear of alien invasion that could be disguised as a dark cloud. She also experienced plateophobia when watching baseball and cupophobia when trying on new bras...
Etymology: Saucer (UFO;Flying Saucer) & Phobia (fear of...)
Invisablitations
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: In-vis-a-bli-tay-shuns
Sentence: Carla was quite the strange one. She often times would speak of "invisablitations" of seeing her cat fly at night and apparitions of things flying around during the day. Nobody ever believed her as she was constantly dodging invisible objects and swatting into thin air at objects nobody else could see. She would scream out loud for no apparent reason...No wonder she thought her cat could fly as it would often leap across the room! Poor Tomcat was constantly startled by Carla's "invisablitationous" outbursts that he was leaping from place to place to get away from her. Carla's best friend Harry often stood in calmness as he watched her scream and swat at invisible objects.
Etymology: Invisible & abilities in action; to flail arms,snort,scream and act out at unknown objects flying around.
Astralphobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: as tral fo beeya
Sentence: Stella had but one fear to live with...astralphobia. She was convinced that aliens were invading our planet and that one by one from stars and moons and planets and galaxies, extra-terrestrials were planning an invasion of our world. This fear may in part have been fuelled by films like Independence Day, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and E.T. In fact, she was sure that some space travellers were already amoung us. How else could you explain Donald Trump's Hair or Paris Hilton? She had heard that some were coming here to procreate with humans to help infiltrate our society. She decided that she would never join an on-line dating service just in case. It would be just her luck to meet someone from Uranus or other disgusting places!
Etymology: astral (to do with the stars or heavens) & phobia ( fear of...)
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COMMENTS:
Stella !!! Hahahaha. Where DO you get your ideas? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:56:00
That great unconquered inner space (between my ears) Cheers. P.S. Her last name is Virgin. - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:33:00
Stella's a great name for such a person - I must go change my sentence now! I used that name too! -awesome word! - splendiction, 2009-03-05: 21:11:00
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Xtrimaginaphobia
Created by: kalex
Pronunciation: X-chra-ma-jin-uh-foh-bee-uh
Sentence: Afflicted with xtrimaginaphobia as she was, Evelyn could not leave the comfort of her tiny home. If she did, she would be subject to the assault of any or every UFO within 400 light years (or so she thought).
Etymology: Xtra-as in extra-terrestrial magina-imagine phobia-fear
Paranormia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: par-uh-NOR-mya
Sentence: Wanda was again experiencing a severe bout of paranormia, fearing an assault by imaginary objects from above that only she could see and sense.
Etymology: Blend of 'paranormal' (Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation) and 'paranoia' (A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution)
Alienspsychosis
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ale + ee + en + si + ko + sis
Sentence: Drew was diagnosed with a severe case of alienspsychosis after he came home complaining about the space creatures who landed in front of his car and made him board their ship. Ever since then, he is terrified to be outside with the night sky and a million stars twinkling above because in that endless surface against which all aerial objects are seen from the earth he sees large silent UFOs cruising overhead...
Etymology: Aliens and Psychosis >> aliens (extraterrestrial being: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere) psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted )
Extraterrorestrial
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ekstrətərestrēəl
Sentence: Barbara is convinced that the sky is full of extraterrorestrial objects. How does she explain that you can't see these scary orbs? Cloaking technology! Yes, she has a science affliction.
Etymology: extraterrestrial (of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere}+ terror (extreme fear}
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COMMENTS:
Doe Barbara have a Jack Rusell terrorerier? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:43:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-03-05: 17:32:00
She is a interrorior designer and the Jack Russell just wouldn't match. - artr, 2009-03-07: 17:49:00
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Spaceflip
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: spays flip
Sentence: Star crazed Sunny Boy, star gazed, while drinking a martiani (oops! martini) or two ... well actually quite a few. He searched the Milky Way and found Mars and a 1000 Grand stars. Then he saw Gal Axy and Unoch Verse in their space ship! Sunny quaked and did a spaceflip!
Etymology: SPACE, FLIP. Space flip is a play on space ship. Space - as in outer space referring to everything beyond earth's atmosphere. Flip - as in 'flip out' meaning to suddenly lose your cool and sanity from fear.
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COMMENTS:
Gal and Unoch were Purple People Eaters ... song of the day! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 01:53:00
great etymology - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:34:00
Nice word! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:44:00
Excellent story....been there, done that. - Mustang, 2009-03-05: 17:33:00
Sunny forgot to use his Nebula-nizer! Maybe all he took up in school was space...good word! - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:25:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James