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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.

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Perfechance

Created by: sparkles510

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The boy's perfechance caused him to wait for weeks to ask the girl out.

Etymology:

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Eternalretentive

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: e-turn-al-ree-tent-iv

Sentence: Penelope's eternalretention was so bad that it was being mimicked by her digestive system. It was always waiting for the perfect piece of cuisine - so she was fading away.

Etymology: anal retentive + eternity

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Eternitease

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ee/turn/i/teez

Sentence: It didn't matter how long he had to wait. He was an eternitease so he could wait forever

Etymology: eternity + tease

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COMMENTS:

Another good one! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-11: 13:44:00

But he will finish up in an eterni-box. Handsome word in look and sound. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:13:00

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Immorebilized

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: im/mohr/buh/lahyzd

Sentence: His perfectionist tendencies left him completely and utterly immorebolized.

Etymology: immobilized + more

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Purpoise

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: purr-poiz

Sentence: In trying to create a verboticism to match today's verbinition, Bob was willing to wait with purpoise.

Etymology: A blend of purpose: a goal; the thing you want to achieve; and poise: a state of calmness, composure, self-controlled under strain or pressure.

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COMMENTS:

if Bob is a porpoise he would be a porpoise with a purpoise - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-11: 12:24:00

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Perpetuism

Created by: Greatoak

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Alex stared at the cloud in a state of perpetuism. Waiting for it to dissolve.

Etymology: Perpetual

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Opportenacity

Created by: CitizenKeen

Pronunciation: ah-PURR-ten-ASS-i-ty

Sentence: When Danny played Halo, he had the opportenacity to sit there and wait for the whole match for that perfect headshot.

Etymology: opportunity + tenacity

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Apexpectation

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: a-PEX-pec-ta-shun

Sentence: At 40 years old, Barry was still apexpecting the girl of his dreams to find and fall in love with him. His mother, on the other hand, was just hoping he would move out.

Etymology: Apex (the pinnacle) and Expecting (a state of waiting in anticipation).

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