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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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Infinatience
Created by: yogiword
Pronunciation: in fin A shince
Sentence: The young mother, despite having the urge to hurry, developed the infinatience to wait for her toddler to discover every dandelion in the park as they enjoyed their daily outing.
Etymology: Congruence of "infinity" and "patience."
Letharjectivism
Created by: buck180
Pronunciation: leth-ahr-JEC-tiv-iz-um
Sentence: The coach, while watching Billy during practice, realized the boy suffered from letharjectivism which caused him to hold his swing unless the pitch was absolutely perfect, and as a result he would need to cut Billy from the team.
Etymology: A pairing of lethargic (a severe lack of motivation) and perfectionism (striving for the paradigm).
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".
Aucuporence
Created by: scottman
Pronunciation: AH kyoo POHR ens
Sentence: She remained a maid into the autumn of her life, possessed as she was of an unyielding aucuporence.
Etymology: from the latin aucupor, to lie in wait for.
Fortispud
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation: four-ti-spud
Sentence: He's fortispuding the opportunity to advance his career.
Etymology: from Fortitude meaning patience from Spud as in couch potato
Idealay
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: I-dee-LAY
Sentence: I have no hope of achieving idealay - I just cannot wait until I have developed the acme of verbotocisms to play the game. I delay no longer - here is my humble attempt.
Etymology: I (me) + ideal (perfect) + delay (postponement forcing a wait)
Infinacity
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: in fin ass it ee
Sentence: the infinacity of Kevin was so renowned nobody dared challenge him to a staring match.
Etymology: from infinity and tenacity making it infinitely tenacious.
Caseyatthebatitude
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: kay-see-at-the-bat-i-tood
Sentence: Bill's caseyatthebatitude casued him to never place any bets at the roulette wheel as he kept waiting for the right moment that never came.
Etymology: From the poem "Casey at the Bat" where Casey kept waiting and eventually struck out when he was meant to be the hero of the day.
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COMMENTS:
very funny - good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-19: 16:14:00
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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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Lassistence
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: lass-iss-tense
Sentence: Joe knew that his lassistence would eventually win him the perfect snowflake, if he just stood there catching them long enough.
Etymology: "lassitude" + "persistence"
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