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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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Exatience
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: (ecks-ay-shense)
Sentence: She stood waiting there with exatience not realizing she had been stood up.
Etymology: "Excessive" (unrestrained) and "patience" (intolerance).
Slackution
Created by: Karuma
Pronunciation: slak-oo-shun
Sentence: he was way too slackution to even notice he passed the place.
Etymology:
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".
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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Pertunitous
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: per-tune-it-is
Sentence: Rachel was very pertunitous. She could wait forever for the perfect moment and opportunity.
Etymology: contraction of perfect and opportune
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
Oppeternity
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: op-ah-turn-it-ee
Sentence: she had turned down every man that had ever asked her out, because none of them were quite right...and by golly even if it took all the oppeternity she possessed... she would eventually find him
Etymology: opportunity, eternity
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).
Lages
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: lage/ess
Sentence: He lages for the perfect opportunity to buy the stock at the right time. Because of his lagesness, he often misses the ideal price point.
Etymology: lag + ages
Trancepatience
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: transe payt iens
Sentence: his trancepatience was so effective, he had his own cpr team.
Etymology: trance patience
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