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DEFINITION: v. To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending. n. An item which has been purchased to fill an emotional void.
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Consumania
Created by: StephLeeY
Pronunciation: consum(e)mania
Sentence: Her overwhelming week caused her to relieve stress in the only way she knows how... by shopping consumaniaically at the mall.
Etymology:
Anaesdebtic
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: an-ess-det-ic
Sentence: Clare always shopped frenziedly after a coffee morning with 'the girls'. How they earned six figures, raised children, coordinated charitable fund-raisers, (and their outfits) without ever passing through puberty puzzled Clare. Could the hollow emptiness of her inadequacy be filled with shoes? Luckily, the anaesdebtic would soon kick in.
Etymology: anaesthetic + debt
Spendacity
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: spen da si ty
Sentence: He walked into Costco not knowing what he wanted, but only feeling the spendacity that he would find something to take the edge off the day.
Etymology: spend + mendacity (false); spending in the false hope that it will address the source of anxiety
Retailaxation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: re-tail-lax-a-tion
Sentence: Football Sunday was the best time for Joni to head to the mall for retailaxation, a.k.a. shop therapy. "When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping," she said as she grabbed her keys and purse.
Etymology: retail + relaxation
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COMMENTS:
Sale-a-brate those Sundays! - Nosila, 2009-08-18: 11:26:00
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Trinketfortreat
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: trink-et-for-treat
Sentence: She stroked the vase with affection and immediately felt better. In spite of the lavish expense, this was genuine trinketfortreat
Etymology: a trinket for a treat
Dyspursal
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: dis-PURSE-al
Sentence: Lenny dispersed all his life-savings with his chronic dyspursal, a downward spiral to bankruptcy
Etymology: dys (from dysfunctional) + purse (container for holding money) + dispersal (spreading widely)
Nebeha
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Nebe-ha
Sentence: Girl, I've be thinking your nebeha
Etymology:
Buyalogic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bye a loj ick
Sentence: When Tracy needed a morale boost, she went shopping. Any bargain she got was deemed buyalogic, as she could justify her need for the item. She needed these boosts quite often and ended up with closetfuls of clothes, shoes and accessories which had cheered her up at one time or another. Every 6 months, the Good Will people got bags of barely worn clothes from Tracy to fill the buyalogic needs of their clients. She believed in paying it forward...
Etymology: Buy (Purchase; obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction) & Logic (Thought process;reasoned judgment) and play on Biologic ( pertaining to biology or to life and living things)
Cashquencher
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: kash-kwench-er
Sentence: In her emotional state Rachel bought those heels as a total cashquencher.
Etymology: cash + quench
