Verboticisms

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"

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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)

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: kiss/mesh

Sentence: I knew it was kismesh when the toast fell on the floor butter side up.

Etymology: kismet (destiny) + mesh (coming together)

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COMMENTS:

very clever pinwheel - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-20: 13:30:00

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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.

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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)

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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"

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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

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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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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: bill-ee-pill-grim

Sentence: Marsha had a BillyPilgrim when she realized that she was the hub of her own universe and that everything was connected.

Etymology: Billy Pilgrim is the main character of "Slaughterhouse 5" and I was feeling lame today.

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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

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