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DEFINITION: v. To have difficulty recognizing, and correctly interpreting, human facial expressions. n. A person who cannot read faces.
Verboticisms
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Intowishin
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: In - too - WISH - uhn
Sentence: Darryl's friends joked behind his back that he had great intowishin'....whatever expression someone, especially girls, might have on their face, Darryl always 'interpreted' it to be whatever he was wishin' it might be.
Etymology: Blend of into and wishing...or wishin'. A play on the word 'intuition'.
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COMMENTS:
Very inventive! ...Wishin' I thought of that one. Really clever. - Tigger, 2008-07-09: 01:38:00
cLEVER - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-10: 05:18:00
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Badfacer
Created by: oliviabrown
Pronunciation: B-AH-d-FAY-sir
Sentence: I'm such a badfacer.
Etymology: {bad} not good, {facer} with faces
Figgliciocous
Created by: brandonmarrotte
Pronunciation: (Fig-gilo-cious)
Sentence: I am figgiloucious because I can not recognize facial expressions of my many wives.
Etymology: Fig-to see, Gillo- to misunderstand
Defacement
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: De-Face-Ment
Sentence: After nobody showed up for her party, she realized she was guilty of defacement yet again.
Etymology:
Invisage
Created by: benjamin
Pronunciation: in-vis-ij
Sentence: Robert invisaged people in all situations; even in bed, he couldn't tell his wife's O-face from here "are we done yet" face.
Etymology: in (prefix meaning not) + visage (face)
Mugmunge
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: mug-munje
Sentence: Marc was bad about mugmunging facial expressions and thinking that people were reacting favorably to his boring stories.
Etymology: mug (face) + munge (to imperfectly transform information i.e. "address munging")
Alibressive
Created by: k3nbr33
Pronunciation: a-lib-ress-iv
Sentence: The man was alibressive when he thought the woman liked him by her smile
Etymology: a-without libr-read essive-expression
Auspockling
Created by: thefreewheeler
Pronunciation: awe - spock ling
Sentence: You have to spell it out literally for Timmy--the damm freak has auspockle syndrom; that's right--he's auspcokling big time.
Etymology: "au" from autism. "spock" from Spock, the character whose Vulcan half rejects emotional, non-logical input.
Unfaciful
Created by: folieadork2
Pronunciation: un/fac/i/ful
Sentence: Unable to read her facial expression, he was unfaciful.
Etymology: un- not faci- face
Converbal
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: con + verb + ull
Sentence: I used to be converbal enough that I thought a big smile meant "I'm not interested."
Etymology: Like non-verbal, only with "con."
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "I, Row-Boat", where a sentient, and very sensitive Row-Boat has some difficulty reading a woman's facial expressions. See the full story in Overclocked. Thank you Cory! ~ James
MIENBLIND is very good- and far more cerebral than my entry. Good work, Ozziebob.
MaybeLater_x - 2008-08-19: 19:10:00
Visagenary is also a play on Imaginary, nay?
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James
ldikarev - 2012-09-06: 16:44:00
ldikarev - 2012-09-06: 16:45:00
Prosopagnosia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing") is a disorder of fa