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DEFINITION: n. A self-image disorder characterized by an inability look at, share, or even recognize pictures of yourself, unless they have been photoshopped to perfection. v. To fall in love with a photoshopped image yourself.
Verboticisms
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Jpego
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: jay-pee-go
Sentence: my jpego was so out of control that i had all reflective surfaces removed from my house
Etymology: jpeg, ego
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COMMENTS:
brilliant! - galwaywegian, 2007-06-05: 07:56:00
ooh - is that like impetjpego - I hear it's very contagious - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-05: 09:39:00
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Photograft
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: foto/graft
Sentence: She had photograft disease which required a weekly graft of her sweet sixteen face implanted in her face
Etymology: graft + photo
Selfabhortrait
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: self-ab-hor-trit
Sentence: Because she suffered from selfabhortrait and wanted everything pixelperfect, Julie didn't get her wedding album back from being photoshopped until five years after her divorce.
Etymology: self-portrait, abhor
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COMMENTS:
Not as deadly as a similar sounding condition ending in ion. - petaj, 2007-06-05: 08:30:00
like south american self abhortration? that's extra deadly because bad stuff always comes from the jungle. ironically, all the best cures could probably be found in the jungle. - jadenguy, 2007-06-05: 09:21:00
(jungle love, it's driving me mad, it's making me crazy...) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-05: 13:59:00
Jungle love! O-E-O-E-O! - Clayton, 2007-06-05: 17:58:00
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Wealthconscious
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Welth-con-shus
Sentence: As her friends rumaged through her and her sisters childhood pictures, she explained how they were all her identical twin sisters since they were so unattractive to her. I took her years to really admit she suffered from Wealthconsciousness.
Etymology: Self-Conscious (conscious of one's being) + wealth (an abudance of something, of beauty in this case)
Iconsee
Created by: geoamnesia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I morphed some images of pretty actresses for my avatar, until I got a sense of peaceful iconsee.
Etymology: "I can see" + "icon". Emotional response to icons, ranging from positive to extremely negative.
Doppeldigitize
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dop pel dij it eyze
Sentence: Dorothy liked to communicate with many on-line friends. She felt much safer and sexier by having her real photo go through a doppeldigitze process, so that she looked younger, fairer, thinner and more attractive and possibly even a richer persona. Of course, at this rate, she could never risk meeting these friends in person, lest they see they had been fooled. What she failed to understand was that they also doppeldigitized themselves, so that she could never recognize them from their photo-shopped images. Sadly, these were the most honest and real friends she had ever cultivated.
Etymology: Doppel (German for Double; a Doppelganger is someone's exact double, thought by many to be seen on a different parallel as an exact double or even an evil twin) & Digitize (put into digital form, as for use in a computer;to change into computer format)
Transnarcissism
Created by: jadenguy
Pronunciation: trans NAR sis ism
Sentence: "Didn't you ever notice the black frame?" he said to me with equal parts disdain and bewilderment, "Her transnarcissism has been so severe that she carries that tablet everywhere. Didn't you notice she's wearing a graduation hat everywhere we go? We have to find Heilman, before it's too late!"
Etymology: Transcend + Narcissism.
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COMMENTS:
i don't think i really got what i wanted out of this word, but reversedoriangreyism was way too hard to work out well as one word. - jadenguy, 2007-06-05: 09:20:00
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Fallaciovisagism
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: FUH-LAY-SEE-OH-VIS-UDGE-ISM
Sentence: Crusty yet benign, the elderly Dr Beddows explained it to me thus: We ALL exhibit, to one degree or another the self-delusional trait known as FALLACIOVISAGISM. To deny our quest for physical beauty and our desire to reclaim our youth would be to deny our very humanity.Ever since the advent of albumen-plate photography,vanity has encouraged mankind to re-touch ourselves in order to have our appearances correspond more closely with our own self-image. However, if left unchecked, this innate tendency can have undesirable, often tragic effects. Statisticians have attempted to link FALLACIOVISAGISM to the rising rate of "virtual" homicides brought on by the casual uploading of doctored portraits prevalent in the cyberdating arena. While the jury is still out on these claims, we should all be aware of the siren which lurks behind the laptop- FALLACIOVISAGISM ! Beware of "headshots"!
Etymology: FALLACIOus+VISAGE+ISM...fallacious:misleading or deceptive...visage:the face or facial expression...ism:condition resuling from an excess of something specified.
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COMMENTS:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/216 - metrohumanx, 2008-07-31: 00:38:00
Enjoyable reading, as always. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-01: 03:20:00
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Selflawphobia
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: s-eh-l-f-l-aw-f-o-bee-uh
Sentence: Alex screamed and curled up into a ball as he was unable to even look at the mirror due to his selflawphobia
Etymology: self+flaw+phobia
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009. Thank you Lucyof2009! ~ James
ErWenn - 2007-06-05: 02:55:00
Excellent definition. I think that the one-word restriction should be eliminated in special cases, such as when the definition is for a medical disorder.
That might work well for special theme weeks. Disease Week is an ideal candidate. Maybe there could be special challenges some times too, like having to write a limerick instead of just a sentence, or haiku.
Hey ErWenn and Petaj, Thanks for the creative ideas! And yes, I think it would be fun to change-up the rules. ErWenn, if you want to change your word into two-word verboticism, you can. Go to the edit/comment page for your word. You will see a link, in small gray type at the bottom of the page, which says "Oops, I want to change the spelling..." Click on this link, and then change your one-word answer into two words and submit. You will get a javascript alert, but the word will be saved. (This works in firefox...)
Hey Petaj, We are doing a theme-week on "office politics" next week! Can you think of any special challenges? ~ James
Well, how about using the word in a sentence from the minutes of a meeting, or in the style of a policy or procedure document.
jadenguy - 2007-06-05: 12:25:00
Or make everybody put a cover letter on their TPS reports before submitting them.
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-05: 14:30:00
Make everyone sit through a performance review of their word.
Stevenson0 - 2007-06-05: 21:34:00
How about filing long range plans, having the boss to dinner(you're invited Mr. Verbotomy next weekend)and paying into the coffee and gift fund?!?!?
Today's definition was suggested by Lucyof2009. Thank you Lucyof2009. ~ James