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

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Tiltymezend

Created by: brimuth

Pronunciation: till - time - zend

Sentence: The spouse perfected tiltymezend-ism after many years of waiting for his wife to make up her mind on which dress to buy whenever they went shopping.

Etymology: Until - the end - of time.

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Pronauseastination

Created by: gazissax

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Sentence: Evan was a classic ballcrastinator: he was often struck out for waiting for the ideal pitch.

Etymology: nausea=from ad nauseaum, to go on to the point of sickness; procrastination=to put off and off

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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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Unicorn

Created by: bridgettelve1

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Perfictionism

Created by: phonematode

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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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