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DEFINITION: v. To collect all the emotional energy you receive from one person, and then share it with the very next person you meet. n. Emotional transference.
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Hysteriotransfer
Created by: tangledupinblue
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Sentence: After being fired, he hysteriotransferred to the people around him for the rest of the day; he even told the barista to "Hurry it up--oh, wait, you can't do that, can you, you stoned slacker? You're fired. I don't need that watery crap you call coffee anyway."
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Emotiredirection
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: e-moti-redirection
Sentence: I've been a bit emotiredirectional lately
Etymology: emotion redirection
Dumpstir
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Dum-pah-ster
Sentence: "'Baggage? I don't think so. Why should I be the only person to carry this burden? I will off load this information, even if it's mentally scaring for the receiver'", thought Michael as he passed on the difficult news that his wife's thrush had flared up again.
Etymology: A convolution of 1) Dumpster (USually)(n) a vessel used for storing junk or unwanted items 2) stir (v) to mix or mix up, perhaps in a mischievious way (colloq).
Procrastagonize
Created by: Wriiight
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Procrastinate + Antagonize
Emotionertia
Created by: garlinger626
Pronunciation: emo-shun-er-sha
Sentence: Sorry about slapping you earlier, I let my emotionertia get the best of me.
Etymology: emotion and inertia
Superemokinesis
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: soo-per-ee-mo-ki-nee-sis
Sentence: Using the power of superkinesis, she transfered the weight of the world to her best friend.
Etymology: From "kinesis" meaning movement, "emo" as the emotions are being transferred, and "super" is perhaps ironic, but could be from "superficial" as such an act hardly involves deep thought. Also a play on Freud's "superego".
Ferventing
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: fur-vent-ing
Sentence: ferventing is just another word for displacing, the psychological defense mechanism...
Etymology: fervent+forwarding, as in email.
Shate
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: sh - ate
Sentence: Sorry I didn't mean it. I'm shating because my bloody cat.
Etymology: share + hate
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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