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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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Emofection
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: e-mo-fek-shon
Sentence: After being dumped by a post-it this morning, Kate has emofected everyone around with her foul mood.
Etymology: I would prefer emotional Infection, or a latin emopatheogenic maybe, but emofection was more naturally understandable.
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COMMENTS:
emoflection would have been good too -- emotion + deflect - petaj, 2007-01-05: 20:19:00
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Cathext
Created by: norallama
Pronunciation: Kuh-theckst
Sentence: I burned the toast, ripped my hose, and then, of course, cathexted all over my assistant the very first chance I got.
Etymology: From "cathexis," meaning "emotional energy" ... and "Next!"
Collectiveemotions
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: Col-ec-tive-E-mot-ions
Sentence: Due to her collective emotions, any people that rub her the wrong way leave a negative feeling that propegates.
Etymology:
Transmoshun
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: trans-moe-shun
Sentence: Pete received the full impact of Kelly's day through transmoshun.
Etymology: transmit + emotion + shun
Transferlament
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: trans-FER-leh-ment
Sentence: Whenever Sally was hit with negative emotions from her interactions with her mother, which was a very frequent occurrence, she would transferlament, laying all her tears and woes on her boyfriend Frankie.
Etymology: Bland of 'transfer' (to shift something or someone from one place to another) and 'lament' (to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret)
Bittershed
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: bit - ter - shed
Sentence: After the boss bawled me out I bittershed my angst on to the delivery boy.
Etymology: Bitter - characterized by intense animosity. Shed - to get rid of.
Synurgey
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sin urjee
Sentence: The synurgey that Kitty felt when she met Ramon was quickly turned to catastrophe when she realized he was not a cat lover. In fact, he was a cat hurter.
Etymology: Synergy (the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects) & Urge (push for something)
Transemosupernova
Created by: spacemonkeymafia
Pronunciation: trans-i-mō-sōō'per-nō'va
Sentence: The transemosupernova has been the cause of many arguments started by my girlfriend.
Etymology: Trans - From the Latin meaning "across, over, or beyond. Emo - from emotion, French émotion, from Old French, from esmovoir, to excite, from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin movēre, to move. Super - Latin, from super, over, above.
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COMMENTS:
Ran out of room for the etymology for nova. Here it is. Nova - New Latin (stēlla) nova, new (star), nova, feminine of Latin novus, new. - spacemonkeymafia, 2007-01-02: 12:38:00
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Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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