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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.
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Opportenacity
Created by: CitizenKeen
Pronunciation: ah-PURR-ten-ASS-i-ty
Sentence: When Danny played Halo, he had the opportenacity to sit there and wait for the whole match for that perfect headshot.
Etymology: opportunity + tenacity
Constiperformance
Created by: PeePaw00
Pronunciation: consta-performance
Sentence: In his life of constiperformance, he had no choice but to quit the band before their first paying gig.
Etymology: constipation + performance
Waitorama
Created by: knele21
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i was willing to waitorama to get that girl
Etymology:
Eternalretentive
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: e-turn-al-ree-tent-iv
Sentence: Penelope's eternalretention was so bad that it was being mimicked by her digestive system. It was always waiting for the perfect piece of cuisine - so she was fading away.
Etymology: anal retentive + eternity
Perfatience
Created by: pipipipipi
Pronunciation: per-fay-shents
Sentence: "His perfatience often hindered him in getting anything done"
Etymology: perfection and patience
Placidelay
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: plass + ih + dih + lay
Sentence: Some day my ship will come in - until that day, I placidelay.
Etymology: placid + delay
Pronauseastination
Created by: gazissax
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Evan was a classic ballcrastinator: he was often struck out for waiting for the ideal pitch.
Etymology: nausea=from ad nauseaum, to go on to the point of sickness; procrastination=to put off and off
Tiltymezend
Created by: brimuth
Pronunciation: till - time - zend
Sentence: The spouse perfected tiltymezend-ism after many years of waiting for his wife to make up her mind on which dress to buy whenever they went shopping.
Etymology: Until - the end - of time.
Steadication
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: sted-i-key-shun
Sentence: Jean had unlimited steadication when it came to waiting for John's marrige proposal.
Etymology: steady + dedication
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COMMENTS:
very nice!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-11: 12:22:00
Steady there! At least they're going steady. Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:21:00
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