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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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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".
Jobeness
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: jobe/ness
Sentence: He felt that exercising extreme jobeness by waiting for the perfect pitch would result in fame and prosperity
Etymology: Job (as in the patience of Job) + ness (a character with special powers from the video game Earthbound)
Slackution
Created by: Karuma
Pronunciation: slak-oo-shun
Sentence: he was way too slackution to even notice he passed the place.
Etymology:
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).
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
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).
Cialusmoment
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: see-AL-us-mo-ment
Sentence: He knew he should have turned left at Poughkeepsie, but it didn't feel right, so he waited for that Cialusmoment and ultimately ended his journey in Tucson.
Etymology: Cialus - an erectile dysfunction medication whose commercial asks the question "When the time is right, will you be ready?"; moment
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COMMENTS:
I LOVE this one! Very funny! - jedijawa, 2007-03-19: 14:49:00
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Hyperseverance
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: high-PURR-seh-VEER-uhns
Sentence: The two cars waited at the intersection, each waving the other on, resulting in a collision of hyperseverance rather than of cars.
Etymology: hyper- + perseverance
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"
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
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