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DEFINITION: n. A place, or a moment, where all the different kinds of truths fit together, and where there are many different ways to be absolutely right about everything. n. To be absolutely right about everything.
Verboticisms
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Youtpoia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: yoōtōpēə
Sentence: Yes, that*s right. You are correct. In fact you are correct about everything. You are perfect. It is youtopia! And then the alarm clock goes off.
Etymology: you (pronoun used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing) utopia (an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect)
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COMMENTS:
You Knowpia! - Nosila, 2009-11-06: 22:34:00
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Mepiphany
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: Me-pif-an-ee
Sentence: The clothes, the shoes, the tiny chihuahua nestled in her purse - they all coalesed into a mepiphany. She grinned in spite of herself and screamed "I *ROCK*!".
Etymology: Me + epiphany
Mediumregular
Created by: thefreewheeler
Pronunciation: mee dee um rehg you lar
Sentence: Adams attributed his perfect score to a momentary seizure of mediumregular.
Etymology: medium and regular: both equilateral and equiangular
Idyllumate
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: I-dill-you-mate
Sentence: Wal-Mart is thought by some to be an Idyllumate.
Etymology: from Idyll- an extremely happy, peaceful or picturesque episode or scene. from Consummate- complete or perfect. Epitome.
Variavalidation
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: ver-eah-valid-ation
Sentence: She had an amazing sense of variavalidation - it was all true and all at the same time.
Etymology: Varia (multiple) + validation
Perfectory
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: per-feck-tory-ee
Sentence: In my dream, I found myself in perfectory with an endless supply of organic cow manure and neighbors who understood the value of tasty weeds.
Etymology: perfect, purgatory
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COMMENTS:
the opposite of perfecktory! - galwaywegian, 2007-04-20: 06:05:00
hmmm - could that also be the impossibility of a university canteen that provides delicious, quality meals (perfect refectory)? - petaj, 2007-04-20: 07:19:00
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Chronosynclastic infundibulum
Created by: vonnegut
Pronunciation: chro-no-sin-kla-stik in-fun-di-bu-lum
Sentence: You might think it would be nice to go to a chronosynclastic infundibulum and see all the different ways to be absolutely right, but it is a very dangerous thing to do.
Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for The Sirens of Titan, published in 1959.
Panveritas
Created by: Trystera
Pronunciation: pan-WHERE-it-ahs
Sentence: The panveritas overwhelmed me in a great mind-reeling jolt, and I was overcome by simultaneous empathy and self-satisfaction.
Etymology: pan- -- Greek, "all" veritas -- Latin, "truth"
Paradaxiom
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: para/dax/ee/um
Sentence: After many months of meditating, Jenny was able to slip into the state of paradaxiom.
Etymology: PARADAXIOM - noun - from PARADISE (a place of extreme beauty, delight, or happiness) + AXIOM (a self-evident truth that requires no proof)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel The Sirens of Titan.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! Also a word of thanks to ErWenn for suggesting this Vonnegut definition ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel The Sirens of Titan.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James