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DEFINITION: v. To have difficulty recognizing, and correctly interpreting, human facial expressions. n. A person who cannot read faces.
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Ircomprehensible
Created by: AlyssaluvsBTR12
Pronunciation: ir-compre-hens-ible
Sentence: John has an ircomprehensible brain, for he cannot understand Jen's expression.
Etymology: Ir- Not compre-figure hens-out ible- able
Emoronic
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: eh - moh - ROH - nik
Sentence: That guy was being so emoronic he thought that Renee Zelwegger's face was twitching up in a horrid manner because she just ate something extremely sour and she badly needed help. The truth is, Renee's face has always been that way. He was just being emoronic.
Etymology: emo + emotion + moronic (dumb)
Mixpress
Created by: fredini
Pronunciation: Mix-press
Sentence: I thought she liked me, but I must have mixpressed her.
Etymology: mixing +expression
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")
Disvis
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: dizz-vizz
Sentence: "When she makes that face, I have such bad disvis. Is she crying or laughing?" "You're such a disvis, I'm laughing."
Etymology: 'dis'- not or taken/removed 'vis'- visual and visage (face and see)
Faceilliterate
Created by: pifty
Pronunciation: fejsilitereit
Sentence: he's so faceilliterate that he can't even tell wheather she likes him or thinks he's an idiot!
Etymology: face, facial + illiterate
Winceblind
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: WINCE-BLIND
Sentence: Paul regaled his dinner date with an endless succession of irrelevant anecdotes,childish jokes and lewd comments. Being congenitally WINCEBLIND,he mistook Bab's expressions of terminal boredom and abject horror as sultry approval and scampish encouragement.
Etymology: WINCE-to grimace BLIND-unable to see that one has NO chance with the opposite sex.
Discognify
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: dis-cogni-fy
Sentence: He completely discognified her defensive monkey-smile for an open invitation into deeper conversation. She discognified my looks on her T-Shirt for interest in her *oops*, but actually i was only interested in the printing-technique of the message on her chest.
Etymology: dissonance = reduced to "dis" cognitare = latin for recognize identify dissonance + cognitare + identify = discognify.
Misblunderstand
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Miss-blun-der-stand
Sentence: No wonder Greg never got a girlfriend, whenever he approached a girl he fancied with one of his cheesy chat-up lines, he would completely misblunderstand that a cringe meant 'GO AWAY' and not a smile and a green light to carry on.
Etymology: Blunder (a mistake + Misunderstand (fail to understand correctly) = Misblunderstand
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2008-07-09: 07:10:00
Love it...will use it myself! - Nosila, 2008-07-09: 20:43:00
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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