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DEFINITION: To measure your success, or evaluate your self-worth, based on what other people think.
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Reputemetrics
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: re-PEWT-MET-RICS
Sentence: Sally is a victim of reputemetrics, spending all her time worrying what her friends think of her.
Etymology: repute (the state of being held in high esteem and honor) + metrics (measurements)
Oneuppish
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: one up ish
Sentence: maralyn was oneupish she always wanted to be better than the other girl.
Etymology: one upmanship...
Vanitation
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: vani - tay - shun
Sentence: She's always been vanitational. Always judges herself on other peoples opinions...
Etymology: corruption of 'vanity'
Absocialitize
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: ab-so-ciali-tize
Sentence: She absocialitized the crowd's reaction to her presentation.
Etymology: from absorb and social
Egoutsource
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ee-gout-source
Sentence: She's always fishing for compliments, I wish she didn't feel the need to constantly egoutsource.
Etymology: ego + outsource
Critivaluation
Created by: zephris
Pronunciation: krit-eh-val-u-a-shun
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
- zephris, 2007-01-10: 09:11:00
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Selfishesteem
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: self-ish-est-eem
Sentence: Models, celebrities and fashionistas all measure their selfishesteem in others' opinions.
Etymology: sef-esteem plus selfish.... simple!