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DEFINITION: To measure your success, or evaluate your self-worth, based on what other people think.
Verboticisms
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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!
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...
Exociation
Created by: Wildcat
Pronunciation: ek-zo-si-a-tion
Sentence: I really wish I could be exociated
Etymology: exo- external (to me) + appreciation
Absocialitize
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: ab-so-ciali-tize
Sentence: She absocialitized the crowd's reaction to her presentation.
Etymology: from absorb and social
Joneskeepping
Created by: Madamemojo
Pronunciation:
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Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
That's brilliant. Maybe not 100% relevant to the definition, but a fantastic word. I may use it sometime. - ErWenn, 2007-01-11: 20:09:00
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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'
Estemialism
Created by: goatmonkey
Pronunciation: ess-stem-ee-yall-is-m
Sentence: Go to a beauty pageant and you will find a whole bunch of estemeists. A person who uses estimialism is an estemialist.
Etymology: esteem + ialism
Survego
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: serv-e-go
Sentence: Jill relied upon her survego to decide how to feel about herself.
Etymology: survey + ego
