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DEFINITION: n. A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity. v. To be excessively patient.
Verboticisms
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Waitcient
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: WAIT shient
Sentence: "OUT"! Verbotsoxz players sought the perfect plays; ever waitcient over the unskilled pitches, their strikes and losses made them the undefeated defeated.
Etymology: WAIT with a hit of PATIENT.
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COMMENTS:
waitcients...the people in the doctors waiting room... - Nosila, 2009-10-06: 01:16:00
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Obsessient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ob-SESS-yent
Sentence: No matter how dire a situation may be or how quickly a remedy should be applied, Martin was absolutely obsessient in waiting for just the right remedy to present itself for fear of not finding the very best remedy available.
Etymology: Blend of obsessive and patient
Foreverbearance
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: for ever ber ans
Sentence: Doug Out was one of the most patient hitters in the entire Baseball League. His patience was actually a foreverbearance and often drove his team members crazy. He would wait forever for the perfect pitch, but often ended up striking out for his inaction. When asked where he got his patience to act this way, his answer was simple. "Why everyone knows, a diamond is forever..."!
Etymology: Forever (for a limitless time) & Forbearance (good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence; a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting;exceptional patience & waiting ability)
Expectwaitions
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: expeck - wayt - shuns
Sentence: Jimmy was ever so patient, he had high expectwaitions that if he stood there long enough, the right pitch would eventually be his.
Etymology: expectations, wait
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COMMENTS:
very well crafted. - splendiction, 2009-10-05: 22:57:00
good one - Nosila, 2009-10-06: 01:17:00
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Supervirtuation
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: soo-per-ver-chew-ay-shun
Sentence: The grandmasters' supervirtuation meant their pieces moving at no more than three squares per hour.
Etymology: Based on the proverb "patience is a virtue".
Zensistence
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: zen-SIS-tense
Sentence: Ever since Rupert got back from Esalon, he has been annoyingly zensistent. Yesterday, we must have burned 3 gallons of gas while cruising Wal-Mart for the "perfect" parking spot.
Etymology: zen + insistence
Errornoia
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: errornoia
Sentence: He was so trapped in errornoia that he never did not do nothing aka he did nothing or didn't do anything in his life.
Etymology: The fear to make errors. Error + Paranoia.
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COMMENTS:
this is good! - wordmeister, 2007-05-13: 13:56:00
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Preparalysis
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: pre + pair + al + ih + sis
Sentence: I'm going to sell that screen play some day, if only I can get over my preparalysis and stop waiting for the "right moment."
Etymology: prepare + paralysis
Mentalpatience
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: men-tal-pay-shense
Sentence: Jill became a patient the mental hospital because of her mentalpatience in sitting at home waiting for Mr. Right to come along.
Etymology: mental patient/ patience
Godotancy
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈdoʊ.ənˌsi/ Silent "t"!
Sentence: A godotant individual rarely feels the negative effects of their unrealistic optimism, but their godotancy often becomes quite frustrating for others.
Etymology: As in Sam Beckett's play, _Waiting for Godot_.
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COMMENTS:
i think Beckett wrote that... - rikboyee, 2007-03-19: 02:27:00
yes. it was definitely beckett. though stoppard is quite good also. - scottman, 2007-03-19: 04:15:00
Literary and clever ... I like it! - jedijawa, 2007-03-19: 14:51:00
Whoops! I should know better than to write these things at 4am. - ErWenn, 2007-03-19: 23:51:00
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Comments:
mplsbohemian - 2007-03-19: 10:42:00
This is the best batch of words I've seen yet. :)
wordmeister - 2007-03-19: 17:50:00
There so many good ones... But which one should I vote for? I'd like to zensist on a cialusmoment but I may have too much infinatience and succumb to preparalysis, or even aucoporence. Is this caseyatthebatititude, or just godotancy?
Hey Verbotomists, Great words last week. Nosila was the top player, but since she won "The Eyre Affair", the prize "Lost in a Good Book" goes to mrskellyscl. This week we are giving away Jasper Fforde's "The Well of Lost Plots". Be creative, and good luck to all. ~ James