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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.
Verboticisms
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Justrightism
Created by: Lurky2000
Pronunciation: Just-Right-izm
Sentence: Justin was an extreme justrightist
Etymology:
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).
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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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
Perfictionism
Created by: phonematode
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Stymied by her own perfictionism, she kept letting go of Mr. Right in search of Mr. Unfreakinbelievable. Now in her 70's she can frequently be heard muttering "All good things come to those who wait..." to her half dozen cats.
Etymology: fiction + perfectionism
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COMMENTS:
The thing about spinsters- to quote Earlene White- "a woman who knows all the answers but has never been asked the question." Love the sentence and a nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:59:00
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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
Perfatience
Created by: pipipipipi
Pronunciation: per-fay-shents
Sentence: "His perfatience often hindered him in getting anything done"
Etymology: perfection and patience
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
Ukillop
Created by: doig1394
Pronunciation: oo-kill-op
Sentence: the kid had a serious issue of ukillop
Etymology:
Perpetuism
Created by: Greatoak
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Alex stared at the cloud in a state of perpetuism. Waiting for it to dissolve.
Etymology: Perpetual
