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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.

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Serendipitoussynchronicity

Created by: christinepucser

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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.

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Umbilicalcard

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: um/bil/i/cal/card

Sentence: All the important deatils of her relationships were stored on her umbilicalcard which she played sometimes to her advantage

Etymology: umbilical cord + card (agenda)

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Soullattice

Trystera

Created by: Trystera

Pronunciation: sole-LAT-tiss

Sentence: After noticing all the subtle strange coincidences, I felt attuned with the great soullatice, the spiritual matrix underlying and fortifying all concrete reality like metaphysical rebar.

Etymology: "Soul" + "Lattice," a framework made of crossed, overlapping strips.

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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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Fundibula

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /fənˈdɪbjulə/

Sentence: One's fundibula are not invisible, though we are often disinclined to see them.

Etymology: From Vonnegut's chrono-synclastic infundibulum. The way I see it, the place where everyone's personal fundibula meet is a chrono-synclastic infundibulum.

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COMMENTS:

I was very close to selecting the word "fundilia" without reference to Vonnegut, but then I realized how close it was to infundibulum that I couldn't not steal it. Incidentally, I'll be very disappointed if tomorrow's definition is not "those places where all the different kinds of truths fit together." - ErWenn, 2007-04-19: 08:04:00

I'm hoping that tomorrow's definition will be "a proud and meaningless association of human beings". Nice word by the way... - wordmeister, 2007-04-19: 10:12:00

Thank you. - ErWenn, 2007-04-19: 16:00:00

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Experiarch

petaj

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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Intercrescents

Created by: emmyb2

Pronunciation: in-ter-cre-cents

Sentence: When I went to college, I was amazed at the intercrescents in my life; all my courses seemed connected!

Etymology: inter - between cresc- growing

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Thumbunicate

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: θəmyoōnəkāshən

Sentence: Joyce*s friends are worried. Ever since she acquired her Blackberry she has stopped talking. Many of her friends haven*t seen her in months. She thumbunicates with them on a regular basis, sometimes dozens of times a day but can*t seem to manage a real world interaction. For all they know she is squirreled up in her mother*s basement with a case of Cheetos and several six packs of Rockstar. An intervention may be in order.

Etymology: thumb (the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them - the primary tool of text messaging) communicate (share or exchange information, news, or ideas)

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COMMENTS:

Thumb's up - Nosila, 2009-11-05: 19:32:00

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Youyarn

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: yoo-yarn

Sentence: Jill contemplated her youyarn which was how she saw her self connected to everything else around her ... like a big skein of yarn.

Etymology: you + yarn

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-19: 03:51:00
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!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-19: 10:02:00
Yeah! KV is pushing us up to the next level ~ James

- 2008-04-20: 01:28:00
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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-06-26: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-05: 00:12:00
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James