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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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Omknowitall
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ämnōitôl
Sentence: It’s easy to hate a know-it-all. It’s a little harder to hate an omknowitall, someone who not only acts like they know everything but has the knowledge to back it up. Difficult but not impossible so keep your smug comments to yourself. Let me live in my happy ignorance.
Etymology: omnipotent (having ultimate power and influence) + know-it-all (a person who behaves as if they know everything)
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.
Convaligence
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: con-VAL-i-JENS
Sentence: Instances of convaligence are rare, but are renowned as the pinnacles of life, or the beginnings of religions.
Etymology: 'convergence' + 'val-' [from valid, validity]
Cosmiright
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: koz-mi-rite
Sentence: Trudy felt such cosmiright that day, so much so that if she died tomorrow she'd die a happy woman.
Etymology: cosmic + right
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)
Veritaex
Created by: artgoddess80
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Vertias is truth. Vertex is intersection.
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
Copazenic
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: COPAcetic+ZENIC
Sentence: I had just gotten a promotion, my son got into Harvard, my foreign investments were hitting the roof, but everything was still not copazenic.
Etymology: COPAcetic+ZENIC Copacetic: completely satisfactory, satisfying. Zenic: related to figuring out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment
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