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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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Xtrimaginaphobia
Created by: kalex
Pronunciation: X-chra-ma-jin-uh-foh-bee-uh
Sentence: Afflicted with xtrimaginaphobia as she was, Evelyn could not leave the comfort of her tiny home. If she did, she would be subject to the assault of any or every UFO within 400 light years (or so she thought).
Etymology: Xtra-as in extra-terrestrial magina-imagine phobia-fear
Saucerphobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sos er fobe eeya
Sentence: When Susan was outside, she often experienced saucerphobia, that fear of alien invasion that could be disguised as a dark cloud. She also experienced plateophobia when watching baseball and cupophobia when trying on new bras...
Etymology: Saucer (UFO;Flying Saucer) & Phobia (fear of...)
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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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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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)
Uiffyo
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: U iff ee OH
Sentence: She was paranoid of the paranormal and believed she had a special gift, a seventh sense she called her uiffyo: that iffy sense that she was not alone and she was being watched, maybe even stalked by UFOs. She felt that sense of possibility every day. Every mosquito bite was a possible entry mark from an abductor, every star or airplane above could have been a UFO. But her friends were getting tired of her obsessive and weird behaviour. They all agreed that her uiffyo sense was getting uiffyold.
Etymology: UFO: iffy: uncertain; at issue, in doubt
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COMMENTS:
Maybe she could sing in the dark? "O, Yipee Ki Yay, U iffy I O" - readerwriter, 2009-03-05: 11:37:00
Hahahaha! Thanks for the laughs! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:48:00
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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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Ufohmygod
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ewe eff oh miee gawd
Sentence: her constant bouts of ufohmygod led to alienation
Etymology: UFO oh my God
Alienspsychosis
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ale + ee + en + si + ko + sis
Sentence: Drew was diagnosed with a severe case of alienspsychosis after he came home complaining about the space creatures who landed in front of his car and made him board their ship. Ever since then, he is terrified to be outside with the night sky and a million stars twinkling above because in that endless surface against which all aerial objects are seen from the earth he sees large silent UFOs cruising overhead...
Etymology: Aliens and Psychosis >> aliens (extraterrestrial being: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere) psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted )
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James