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DEFINITION: n. A social network built on the intertwining connections between the people, ideas and things. v. To communicate through a social network.
Verboticisms
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Empatresses
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: em pat ressss ez
Sentence: her empatresses bound her loves and life to her, plaited together like the vines around an amazonian hardwood.
Etymology: empathy, tresses
Characturds
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kar-ak-turds
Sentence: A sixth-grade science teacher who made me eat chocolate covered ants, a mother with an obsession for gardening, and a nasty fall on the head as a child; these are some of the knitwits, purpleartifolks, and characturds that moulded me into the fine verbotomiss I am today.
Etymology: character, turds (I seem to get the cream of the crap when it comes to influences)
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COMMENTS:
Love your creative sentences. Ever think of becomming a writer? - toadstool57, 2007-04-19: 07:16:00
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Weavenness
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: WEEV-ehn-ness
Sentence: When his girlfriend slipped out of Alex's weavenness, it was as if he fell through a hole in a hammock.
Etymology: weave + evenness : The weave that keeps you even.
Taopestry
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: tao-pess-tree
Sentence: on his deathbed he looked back on his rich taopestry and was pleased with what he saw
Etymology: tao [the way or the path] tapestry
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COMMENTS:
very taotful - galwaywegian, 2007-04-19: 05:53:00
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Stimurounding
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: stimu like in stimulate, rounding like in surrounding.
Sentence: Your experience is cheavily spinfluenced by your stimurounding. The stimurounding was bad for her, i had to get her out of this city quickly...
Etymology: stimulous + surrounding = stimurounding.
Connectwork
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kon - nekt - werk
Sentence: Polly had her family, friends and then there was her connectwork, HelloYou. Polly found a kinship of people there through threads of common interest. She had 25 friends in FarmerTown that she really didn't even know, except that they all liked to plant crops and harvest them.
Etymology: connect, network
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COMMENTS:
connects for me - Nosila, 2009-11-05: 19:51:00
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Experiarch
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ex-peer-ee-arch
Sentence: Carol planned to become an author of self-help books and used experiarch as her motif to describe the foundation upon which we can all build. Her first title was to be "The experiarch less trammelled" followed soon after by "The magic of experiarch : building a bridge to your future".
Etymology: experience + arch (in the architectural sense of supporting construction above an opening)
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COMMENTS:
My mind has been opened... Thank you petaj - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:35:00
Sounds like a great series Petaj - maybe The Archies could be featured in them - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-20: 11:26:00
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Vitanex
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: Vee-tah-necks or Vye-tah-necks
Sentence: The people in the village semi-consciously created a large and tightly woven vitanex to support each other.
Etymology: From Vita-Life From Nex-bound
Corenections
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Kor-nek-shuns
Sentence: Lisa thought it very important to have plenty of corenections in life and that was what had made her who she was today.
Etymology: Core(Depths of one's being, the central or most important part) + Connections(a link or relationhip) = Corenections
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COMMENTS:
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-26: 10:56:00
not just good...core-ageous! - Nosila, 2008-06-26: 23:00:00
Very clever. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-27: 17:57:00
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Socirtuality
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: so-sir-tchu-al-i-ty
Sentence: Jenna networked with her friends so much that she developed her very own socirtuality where everthing revolved around her and what she thought and felt. She communicated constantly with her bffs and developed a relationship with a really cute boyfriend -- at least his avatar was cute and he sounded really cute in his texts. She was so busy with her MySpace page, her Facebook page, her tweets and her second life that she forgot about her first life and real relationships. It got so bad that her family had to text her when her grandmother died.
Etymology: society: totality of social relationships among humans + virtual: existing in essence, but not in it's actual form + reality: the quality or state of be actual or true
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
jedijawa - 2007-04-19: 08:29:00
These are tough this week!
Yeah! KV is pushing us up to the next level ~ James
- 2008-04-20: 01:28:00
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Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James