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DEFINITION: n. The unnameable fear which overcomes one when a large silent UFO cruises arrogantly overhead. v. To be frightened by the huge flying objects which exist (for the most part) in your imagination.
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Fantasymagoria
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fan/tas/ee/mag/or/eea
Sentence: Sally suffered from fantasymagoria every time a Star Trek convention came to town.
Etymology: fantasy + phantasmagoria (shifting series of real or imaginary figures as seen in a dream)
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COMMENTS:
Everyone loves a good fantasy! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:12:00
I like the way you think :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-01: 16:40:00
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Astralphobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: as tral fo beeya
Sentence: Stella had but one fear to live with...astralphobia. She was convinced that aliens were invading our planet and that one by one from stars and moons and planets and galaxies, extra-terrestrials were planning an invasion of our world. This fear may in part have been fuelled by films like Independence Day, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and E.T. In fact, she was sure that some space travellers were already amoung us. How else could you explain Donald Trump's Hair or Paris Hilton? She had heard that some were coming here to procreate with humans to help infiltrate our society. She decided that she would never join an on-line dating service just in case. It would be just her luck to meet someone from Uranus or other disgusting places!
Etymology: astral (to do with the stars or heavens) & phobia ( fear of...)
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COMMENTS:
Stella !!! Hahahaha. Where DO you get your ideas? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:56:00
That great unconquered inner space (between my ears) Cheers. P.S. Her last name is Virgin. - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:33:00
Stella's a great name for such a person - I must go change my sentence now! I used that name too! -awesome word! - splendiction, 2009-03-05: 21:11:00
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Extraterrorestrial
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ekstrətərestrēəl
Sentence: Barbara is convinced that the sky is full of extraterrorestrial objects. How does she explain that you can't see these scary orbs? Cloaking technology! Yes, she has a science affliction.
Etymology: extraterrestrial (of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere}+ terror (extreme fear}
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COMMENTS:
Doe Barbara have a Jack Rusell terrorerier? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:43:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-03-05: 17:32:00
She is a interrorior designer and the Jack Russell just wouldn't match. - artr, 2009-03-07: 17:49:00
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Aerosis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: air/os/is
Sentence: Jody suffers from the heartbreak of aerosis constantly ducking and flinging herself under sidewalk and park benches to avoid being struck by her perceived areonautic space debris.
Etymology: AEROSIS - noun - from AERO (pertaining to flying objects such as aeroplanes) + NEUROSIS (personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety and a degree of social, or interpersonal maladjustment)
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COMMENTS:
Good word, but I got tongue cramps pronouncing it! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:47:00
I can't even say this once slow let alone three times fast ... must need an alien tongue to say this one! Superb tongue twister! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:02:00
I think my comment was supposed to appear beneath "Pedesastrian".....AEROSIS is clever and eminently pronounceable. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 17:23:00
Nice switcheroo stevenson! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 17:40:00
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Ufofrighting
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: u f o fright ing
Sentence: The most recent of Lunar’s ufofrightings came at the time she was searching through a particularly tangled shrub in her garden for what, we can only imagine. Lunar knew there was something lurking in that gaudy intertwine of Hydrangea/Lilac: she could sense a presence waiting to lunge! She pressed her lips together. Her piercing gaze into the shrub was easily interrupted by, high in the distant sky, a luminescent puck, a ufofrighting! It immediately removed her from her paranoidormal search into the greenery. Lunar tore quickly into her tiny kitchen, double-locked the door, pressed her lips together and fixed a piercing ghaze up into the sky...
Etymology: from ufo sighting and fright - to fear the appearance of an unidentified flying object
Mortalitraumatrance
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: more-TAL-ih-TROM-ih-TRANCE
Sentence: The fireworks were over, and only the smoke remained when he asked if anyone had seen the "flying V"...When the peals of derisive laughter died down, he explained that it wasn't a vintage electric guitar, but an enormous airborne triangular craft. Moments later, the giggles died as their jaws dropped and they stared up at the sky, immobilized by a MORTALITRAUMATRANCE which rendered everyone completely silent.
Etymology: MORTALITY(from mortal)+TRAUMA+TRANCE= MORTALITRAUMATRANCE.....MORTAL; subject to death , possible , conceivable, marked by great intensity or severity ,of, relating to, or connected with death,the death of large numbers (as of people or animals);Middle English, from Anglo-French mortel, mortal, from Latin mortalis, from mort-, mors death.....TRAUMA: a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury,an agent, force, or mechanism that causes trauma; Greek traumat-, trauma wound, alteration of trōma; akin to Greek titrōskein to wound, tetrainein to pierce.....TRANCE: stupor , daze; Middle English traunce, from Anglo-French transe death, coma, rapture, from transir to depart, die, from Latin transire to cross, pass by .
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COMMENTS:
Laugh all you want. I'm NOT going back there.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc673.htm - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:21:00
Q: How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:24:00
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:35:00
Q: How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?..................A: Only one, but the light bulb has to WANT TO CHANGE. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 13:16:00
Good word. You get a star for the longest word of the day, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:09:00
Could i have a chipmunk sticker instead? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 16:11:00
Sure! lol - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 17:45:00
Oh, metro, your jokes about light bulbs are so incandescent and illuminating! - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:31:00
:) Good one ! - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-25: 14:08:00
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Paranormia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: par-uh-NOR-mya
Sentence: Wanda was again experiencing a severe bout of paranormia, fearing an assault by imaginary objects from above that only she could see and sense.
Etymology: Blend of 'paranormal' (Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation) and 'paranoia' (A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution)
Eh
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ? - well it is unnameable
Sentence: Timidia let out a series of grunts and groans, but could not spit out even a single word. She just looked up at the sky, as though there was something hovering there, exhibiting all the signs eh.
Etymology: An expression used when one is speechless, possibly due to being frightened out of one's wits
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COMMENTS:
are you suggesting there is a link between canada and ufos? :) - galwaywegian, 2009-03-05: 08:42:00
is there a link between Irish people and ouchpotatoes? - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:37:00
Quite jolly! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:39:00
Eh! Oh! Eh! Oh! It's a great exclamation ... no matter where you go ... even if it is by UFO! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 14:56:00
I like the sound of a good Eh! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:20:00
You get an "EH-PLUS" for this one! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-06: 13:40:00
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Highsteria
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: hye steer eee aa
Sentence: her highsteria was probably due to something lower down, such as the grass on which she had been picnicking
Etymology: hysteria high
Consteralienation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: känstərālēənnāshən
Sentence: Wendell is not allowed to watch Sci-Fi movies. Every time he watches one he is left with an overwhelming sense of consteralienation. Every light in the sky, every unexplained noise he hears is surly extraterrestrial. He is just one step short of wearing tin foil on his head. This wouldn’t look good in his position as CEO of a major corporation.
Etymology: consternation (feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected) + alien (extraterrestrial)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James