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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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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...)
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
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
Paranormia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: par-uh-NOR-mya
Sentence: Felicity 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)
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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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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Invisablitations
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: In-vis-a-bli-tay-shuns
Sentence: Carla was quite the strange one. She often times would speak of "invisablitations" of seeing her cat fly at night and apparitions of things flying around during the day. Nobody ever believed her as she was constantly dodging invisible objects and swatting into thin air at objects nobody else could see. She would scream out loud for no apparent reason...No wonder she thought her cat could fly as it would often leap across the room! Poor Tomcat was constantly startled by Carla's "invisablitationous" outbursts that he was leaping from place to place to get away from her. Carla's best friend Harry often stood in calmness as he watched her scream and swat at invisible objects.
Etymology: Invisible & abilities in action; to flail arms,snort,scream and act out at unknown objects flying around.
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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Spaceflip
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: spays flip
Sentence: Star crazed Sunny Boy, star gazed, while drinking a martiani (oops! martini) or two ... well actually quite a few. He searched the Milky Way and found Mars and a 1000 Grand stars. Then he saw Gal Axy and Unoch Verse in their space ship! Sunny quaked and did a spaceflip!
Etymology: SPACE, FLIP. Space flip is a play on space ship. Space - as in outer space referring to everything beyond earth's atmosphere. Flip - as in 'flip out' meaning to suddenly lose your cool and sanity from fear.
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COMMENTS:
Gal and Unoch were Purple People Eaters ... song of the day! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 01:53:00
great etymology - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:34:00
Nice word! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:44:00
Excellent story....been there, done that. - Mustang, 2009-03-05: 17:33:00
Sunny forgot to use his Nebula-nizer! Maybe all he took up in school was space...good word! - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:25:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James