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

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Perfatience

Created by: pipipipipi

Pronunciation: per-fay-shents

Sentence: "His perfatience often hindered him in getting anything done"

Etymology: perfection and patience

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Constiperformance

Created by: PeePaw00

Pronunciation: consta-performance

Sentence: In his life of constiperformance, he had no choice but to quit the band before their first paying gig.

Etymology: constipation + performance

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Justrightism

Created by: Lurky2000

Pronunciation: Just-Right-izm

Sentence: Justin was an extreme justrightist

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Righencemt

Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: ra- i-inc-m-ta

Sentence: i wanted to ask him but i was in a stage of righencment

Etymology: right/patence/ moment

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Willtopatience

Created by: Janbo

Pronunciation: Pronounced in a continuous manner.

Sentence: His willtopatience is too great for his own good.

Etymology:

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Apexpectation

MrDave2176

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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Eternalretentive

petaj

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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Ukillop

Created by: doig1394

Pronunciation: oo-kill-op

Sentence: the kid had a serious issue of ukillop

Etymology:

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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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Placidelay

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: plass + ih + dih + lay

Sentence: Some day my ship will come in - until that day, I placidelay.

Etymology: placid + delay

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