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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.
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Cogijam
Created by: Bonta
Pronunciation: koj'-i-jam
Sentence: Trying to figure out what to do was a total cogijam.
Etymology: Latin: cogi (consider) + jam (to cause working parts to lock)
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.
Diggdang
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: dig-dang
Sentence: It was like niravanna! It was diggdang moment when Roger knew everything! When he could digg every dang thing in the universe. Unfortunatley it was a little too much for his head to hold, and it exploded.
Etymology: like the big bang theory, only backwards...
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COMMENTS:
I hope this word can sit in the thexus with coincidyll -- a "thank you" to petaj for the inspiration. - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:56:00
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Shytaluk
Created by: Jaxies
Pronunciation: /sheet-uh-luk/
Sentence: "It was pure shytaluk that he'd asked her out on the same day she'd received a bonus at work and the pair of Jimmy Choo's she'd been eyeing dropped down to the lowest price ever."
Etymology: Shyte + (a) + luck
Knowcation
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: no - ka - shun
Sentence: Travis felt that he had reached the knowcation he had been looking for. It was in this place of peace where the northern boundary of the forest preserve met the wheatfield he had his moments of revelation. He sat under the trees watching the grain wave in the breeze and it all began to come together.....
Etymology: know, location
Veritaex
Created by: artgoddess80
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Vertias is truth. Vertex is intersection.
Denihilation
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: however you like
Sentence: In a moment of denihil it is eminently possible to make something out of nothing...
Etymology: de + nihil - also has a nice synergy with "denial"
Polyveritism
Created by: Pasicheio
Pronunciation: Paw-Lee-Vare-It-Ism
Sentence: With an exclamation of joy, Polly realized that they were both right, and that moment was a polyveritism!
Etymology: Poly; veritas; umm..ism
Omnaccurate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: om na kur at
Sentence: Debbie knew everything and was unafraid to boast how omnaccurate she was. Her family motto was, "Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do!"
Etymology: Omni (Latin omnis:all) & Accurate (right;(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct)
Infinintelligent
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: in-fehn-in-TELL-eh-jent
Sentence: Abigail is always eager to show that she is infinitelligent, and that she possesses broad knowledge on any and every topic that arises.
Etymology: Blend of works 'infinite' (immeasurably or inconceivably great or extensive) and 'intelligent' (having or indicating a high or satisfactory degree of intelligence and mental capacity)
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