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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.
Verboticisms
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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
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
Perfechance
Created by: sparkles510
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The boy's perfechance caused him to wait for weeks to ask the girl out.
Etymology:
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.
Willtopatience
Created by: Janbo
Pronunciation: Pronounced in a continuous manner.
Sentence: His willtopatience is too great for his own good.
Etymology:
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
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
Zencessive
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: zen/cess/ive
Sentence: He has a zencessive personality, constantly in meditation and self-contemplation waiting always for the perfect moment to act. Because of his zencessiveness, he often misses out completely.
Etymology: zen + excessive
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COMMENTS:
Om good! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-11: 13:46:00
You really zend me! Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:41:00
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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).
Jobstinant
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: johb-stun-ant
Sentence: some people said i was being jobstinant, but i knew eventually someone would want me to work less hours for more money and, if i was lucky, i would have unlimited access to free downloadable porn without fear of retribution
Etymology: obstinant, job [as in the biblical guy who everyone has the patience of]
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COMMENTS:
nice reference to Job - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-11: 12:21:00
Thinking outside the box! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-11: 13:47:00
Be careful you don't receive a jobation! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:10:00
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