noun
An emotional ailment whereby one is unable to express or articulate keenly felt anxieties or misgivings due to rules of social engagement, rather than disinclination or inability.
An online repository of neologisms concerning 21st century Western maladies, doldrums and despondencies.
Friday 30 November 2012
Friday 23 November 2012
Flystung
adjective
Acutely troubled by one or multiple imperfections. eg. typos, eyesores, the serious flaw in an otherwise compelling work.
Acutely troubled by one or multiple imperfections. eg. typos, eyesores, the serious flaw in an otherwise compelling work.
Friday 16 November 2012
Dumbattery
noun
The sensation of being unfairly maligned, in particularly when advocating what one believes to be a complex, nuanced moral or intellectual position, only to see it reduced to a grotesque proposition.
Note: There is nothing to say that this feeling is inherently justified.
The sensation of being unfairly maligned, in particularly when advocating what one believes to be a complex, nuanced moral or intellectual position, only to see it reduced to a grotesque proposition.
Note: There is nothing to say that this feeling is inherently justified.
Friday 9 November 2012
Tempoceptive
adjective
To be overcome with sadness at the fleetingness of an agreeable arrangement or state of affairs.
In those summer days before we parted, I was nothing if not tempoceptive.
To be overcome with sadness at the fleetingness of an agreeable arrangement or state of affairs.
In those summer days before we parted, I was nothing if not tempoceptive.
Friday 2 November 2012
Sournality
noun
A sense of shame and frustration emanating from an awareness of one's relative wealth and privilege (particularly compared with those living in poverty) and how little comfort it provides, most keenly felt when pontificating on the advantages and successes of others.
A sense of shame and frustration emanating from an awareness of one's relative wealth and privilege (particularly compared with those living in poverty) and how little comfort it provides, most keenly felt when pontificating on the advantages and successes of others.
Friday 26 October 2012
Shortpine
verb
To want something, perhaps desperately, but to be simultaneously aware of a lack of the necessary drive to acquire it.
"Of course I'd like to be rich. But I'm no hungry sociopath, so it's just shortpining really."
To want something, perhaps desperately, but to be simultaneously aware of a lack of the necessary drive to acquire it.
"Of course I'd like to be rich. But I'm no hungry sociopath, so it's just shortpining really."
Friday 19 October 2012
Dragduggery
noun
Stress brought on by a perception of severe deceleration in the passage of time.
Stress brought on by a perception of severe deceleration in the passage of time.
Friday 12 October 2012
Velocityranny
noun
Stress caused by a perceived acceleration in the passage of time.
Stress caused by a perceived acceleration in the passage of time.
Friday 5 October 2012
Blissbugged
adjective
Troubled by an inability to enjoy something that ought to be pleasurable (or so one is led to believe).
Friday 28 September 2012
Contratentative
adjective
Descriptive of the state of wanting to simultaneously do everything at once and nothing at all.
Descriptive of the state of wanting to simultaneously do everything at once and nothing at all.
Friday 21 September 2012
Fool's Guilt
noun
Guilt suffered in spite of the reasonableness or necessity of the causative action.
Example scenario: An urgent request has to be turned down due to a lack of available time.
Guilt suffered in spite of the reasonableness or necessity of the causative action.
Example scenario: An urgent request has to be turned down due to a lack of available time.
Friday 14 September 2012
Numbsnap
noun
The moment of immediate, intense regret following a seemingly innocuous action.
Example scenario: The unplanned revelation of a previously concealed truth in the crucible of social interaction.
The moment of immediate, intense regret following a seemingly innocuous action.
Example scenario: The unplanned revelation of a previously concealed truth in the crucible of social interaction.
Tuesday 11 September 2012
Mullmort
noun
State of anxiety brought on by trying to imagine the experience of death.
State of anxiety brought on by trying to imagine the experience of death.
Rankthrill
noun
Sensation caused by the rapid souring of pleasure, tending to be more intense the more unexpected the pleasure.
Example scenario: Brief, enjoyable bodily contact that is soon revealed as unintentional, eg. a brushing of the shoulder by a close companion.
Sensation caused by the rapid souring of pleasure, tending to be more intense the more unexpected the pleasure.
Example scenario: Brief, enjoyable bodily contact that is soon revealed as unintentional, eg. a brushing of the shoulder by a close companion.
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