DEFINITION: To push yourself so hard, to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you end up undercutting your own success.

Marvellosity

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: mar-vel-LOS-ee-tee

Sentence: Professionally Bob didn't plan to jump tall buildings in a single bound, he wanted to soar much higher than that. And, as paragon of phoenixity, this cryptonite-proofed superman of industry leaped vocationally higher and higher every day. But what this ubiquitist didn't realize that 20 hours a day of desktop dedication would eventually lead to medication. Colleagues found their demarvellized director, slumped at his desk, physically and emotionally enervated. A doctor, called to treat him, said that he was suffering from ergasthenia, but others suggested that his condition was due to extreme marvellosity.

Etymology: Blend of marvel(example of outstanding success),lose (fail to retain)& -ity(expressing state or condition) Phoenixity: matchless excellence or beauty. Grambs, D J "Dictionary of Endangered English" 1994

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