cool words

canoeist

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Parthenogenesis

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Eschatology

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There is urgency in words hysterical that makes me only able to image myself saying them in impression of Gene Wilder from the Producers, like when in a normal day can you fit this word without sounding like mad man? That make the whole word funny to me.

Also ignore what i just said, the coolest word is samograj which in polish means something trivial and easy to like (alongside more real meaning of self-playing instrument but that less cool) and i think that world need at least few more nice ways to say crowd-pleaser before we achieve world wide happiness

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finger-fumbler

The sign language equivalent of a tongue-twister!

Love it!!!

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Anatidaephobia

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“rofl come on, that’s not real.” — my therapist when I tell her I have anatidaephobia.

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It is, it’s actually from here:

however Gary Larson has been credited with the naming of the arrangement of spikes on the tails of stegosaurian dinosaurs, so it’s entirely possible it will be done day!

Bonus word:

thagomizer

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Not you too, Tom!! :(

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Sorry of course it is, you must have misheard me! Must be your Ortographobia.

The amount of phobias out there is really making my Phobophobia kick in.

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fulsome

I think the Spanish word desahogar is cool because imo its direct translation is to un-drown. In a lot of dictionaries it’s translated as “to vent” or “to relieve/ease”. When you are going through it and you have a long cathartic spilling-out with a friend, that is to desahogar. You were drowning and now you feel better. To me simply “Venting” doesn’t hit as hard. Desahogar feels more dramatic, idk.

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This is so cool! I didn’t know this word, and I’m really glad you shared it.

Desahogar is much more dramatic, and it seems to communicate a different level of catharsis, or catharsis in a different sort of action. Compare it with the phrase in English: “to let off steam.” I see similarities between this phrase and the metaphor present in the verb “to vent.” There’s a pressure, and that pressure is released. Drowning is something else entirely. It is an active form of being deprived of something vital, and to “un-drown” is to have that need filled.

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papabile

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Playmobil

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popemobile

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Whenever I hear popemobile I think of “pimpmobile”.

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Tergiversation.

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katabasis

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