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DEFINITION: n. A special ability lets you focus on the big picture without getting distracted by those busy little details. v. To skip over the details while focusing on the big picture.
Verboticisms
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Panoramimania
Created by: hoylus
Pronunciation: pan-uh-ram-ee-mey-nee-uh
Sentence: due to his panoramimania, Bo couldn't see the trees for the wood.
Etymology: panorama - 'an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions' Mania - 'excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze'
Beelinear
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bēlinēər
Sentence: When it comes to playing video games Josh is strictly beelinear. Silly details like paying the rent, grooming, paying attention to his girlfriend (when he had one) and sometimes even eating just are not important once he gets started.
Etymology: beeline (a straight line between two places) + linear (arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line)
Nonderailment
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: nan-dee-rayel-ment
Sentence: Hugo's nonderailment allowed him to get his reports done without the distraction of Freecell(tm).
Etymology: non + derail
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COMMENTS:
ahwinters, I think you're on track with this one... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:35:00
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Microblindness
Created by: cryptc
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Dave never bothered with the little things, so his friends suspected he was afflicted by microblindness.
Etymology:
Treeblindness
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: TREE-blind-ness
Sentence: Al, a "can't see the forest for the trees" kinda guy, never made it to the campout because he spent all day assembling his survival kit. Jim, who suffered from treeblindness, got there early. So early that it was too dark to see the cliff he walked over.
Etymology: "Can't see the forest for the trees," reversed, + nightblindness
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COMMENTS:
Good one. - ErWenn, 2007-01-29: 00:34:00
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Minutiaverse
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: mi-nū-shi-a-vûrs
Sentence: Rob believed that to get ahead in hedge fund management you really needed to minutiaverse.
Etymology: minutia (minute detail) + averse (disinclined, reluctant)
Pimpyface
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: pimpy face
Sentence: no, these are my own, i have a pimpyface day-.
Etymology: pimples and face
Eupaniminutiae
Created by: schizboot
Pronunciation: yü-pan-i-m&-'nü-sh(E-)&
Sentence: I have the gift of eupaniminutiae; I don't get bogged down in the everyday details of life.
Etymology: Eu(true/good)+pan(all)+im(un)+minutiae; as in, I took a crash course in Latin prefixes a few years ago.
Panoramosis
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: PAN-or-AM-OH-sis
Sentence: Tod has wicked panoramosis... keeps him on track, but he often misses out on the little things in life.
Etymology: pan- + Gk (h)órāma - all seeing; Gk ōsmos, thrust, push.
Trifleblindness
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'trI-f&l-"blInd-n&s/
Sentence: Sometimes the debate between holism and reductionism is really an argument between trifleblindness and obsessive-compulsion.
Etymology: From trifle + blindness
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COMMENTS:
Ah, those silly little trifles, if only I was blind to them... Maybe I should deal with the trifles with a rifle, like our good friend the Alchemist. - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 00:58:00
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Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-01-27: 09:53:00
Lots of good ones today.
wordmeister - 2007-01-27: 23:48:00
Yeah, it's very confuzzling! There's a stingleminded farblightness to many of the words... Excellent!