Verboticism: Perfmakely

'This is the real me.'

DEFINITION: n. A self-image disorder characterized by an inability look at, share, or even recognize pictures of yourself, unless they have been photoshopped to perfection. v. To fall in love with a photoshopped image yourself.

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Mypicophobia

Created by: s6guy72

Pronunciation: my-pic-o-fob-ia

Sentence: Jennifer is a mypicophobic, so much that she burned all of her parents photo albums as well as her yearbooks.

Etymology: my (me, mine) pic (picture) phobia (fear)

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COMMENTS:

Great look about it - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-01: 03:33:00

metrohumanx Very clinical and funny. It's getting hard to choose anymore. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 06:53:00

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Flimmage

Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: fuh-lim-age

Sentence: I think you've got a case of flimmage going on there. That's a picture of you, only it doesn't show your freckles, your eyes aren't blue and there's no moustache.

Etymology: 'Flawless' and 'image' squeezed together, with an extra 'm' just for the hell of it!

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Selfabhortrait

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: self-ab-hor-trit

Sentence: Because she suffered from selfabhortrait and wanted everything pixelperfect, Julie didn't get her wedding album back from being photoshopped until five years after her divorce.

Etymology: self-portrait, abhor

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COMMENTS:

petaj Not as deadly as a similar sounding condition ending in ion. - petaj, 2007-06-05: 08:30:00

like south american self abhortration? that's extra deadly because bad stuff always comes from the jungle. ironically, all the best cures could probably be found in the jungle. - jadenguy, 2007-06-05: 09:21:00

(jungle love, it's driving me mad, it's making me crazy...) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-05: 13:59:00

Jungle love! O-E-O-E-O! - Clayton, 2007-06-05: 17:58:00

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Pixelperfect

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: pihk-suhl-PUR-fehkt

Sentence: Alex wanted to get novelty photos taken with his girlfriend, but she refused, as an ice-cream cone costume could by no means render her as pixelperfect.

Etymology: pixel + picture-perfect

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Airbrushism

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: ehr-brush-izum

Sentence: Samantha's severe airbrushism was diagnosed after her friends noticed that all the mirrors in her apartment were covered with photoshopped images of her.

Etymology: airbrush (to remove detail as if by an airbrush) + ism (suffix)

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Photograft

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: foto/graft

Sentence: She had photograft disease which required a weekly graft of her sweet sixteen face implanted in her face

Etymology: graft + photo

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Pixosis

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: pix/os/is

Sentence: Her psychiatrist's treatment of pixosis was to get her, over time, to use older and older versions of Photoshop until she weaned herself of the program.

Etymology: pixel + osis

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does that treatment work? - jadenguy, 2007-06-05: 15:36:00

Yes, it's called de-programming. - Stevenson0, 2007-06-05: 21:25:00

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Photoshopaholic

Created by: rookiebot

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You get more points automatically if you fill out the pronunciation, sentence, and etymology. Besides, people are more likely to vote for your word if it's got some backing creativity. - ErWenn, 2007-06-06: 01:01:00

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Fauxtorexia

Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: foe-toe-rex-eah

Sentence: We had known for a while that she suffered from fautorexia, but it was officially confirmed when she sent us all absurdly photoshoped makeovers of all of the vacation photos that included her.

Etymology: faux (as in fake) + pun on photo + rexia (suffix related to obsession and hunger for something) = obsession with fake photos

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I like the pun on fauxto! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-05: 18:29:00

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Phonyshopped

Created by: hennifer

Pronunciation: phone y shopped

Sentence: The only way she thinks she is beutiful if she is so phonyshopped that she makes barbie look real

Etymology: phonyshopped: phony (fake) + photoshopped

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COMMENTS:

I like this one.. easy to say. - serendipity9000, 2007-06-05: 16:24:00

nice one Jen, got my vote ;) - ziggy41, 2007-06-05: 21:32:00

Good word! - Stevenson0, 2007-06-05: 21:37:00

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