How to rivet my attention to the bulkhead: ysabetwordsmith

How to rivet my attention to the bulkhead

eniastoa wandered by my blog. I happened to check the profile, which I sometimes do when strangers drop by. O_O There are 16 words in the Interests list that I didn't know! *add to Friends list*

asyndeton -- omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses

eduction -- the act of drawing out or bringing into view

fartlek -- an athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous.

Guelph -- 1) a city of southern Ontario, Canada, west of Toronto. It is an industrial center in a farming area. 2) A member of a strong faction in medieval Italy that supported the power of the pope and the city-states in a struggle against.

kairosis -- the literary effect of fulfillment in time.

kenosis -- The word kenosis is a Greek term meaning "emptying," and is used in Philippians 2:7 to refer to the Jesus Christ's act of becoming human.

They have a word for this?! I've long been familiar with the concept of shedding vast amounts of soulmass to fit into a body, but wow, it's going to be super convenient to be able to say that in one word.

phusis -- nature

the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature
as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse
as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the natural branches, i.e. branches by the operation of nature
birth, physical origin
a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature
the sum of innate properties and powers by which one person differs from others, distinctive native peculiarities, natural characteristics: the natural strength, ferocity, and intractability of beasts

texterity -- a major provider of complete digital magazine publishing solutions.

ubiety -- the state of existing and being localized in space.

Now, what do "droringe," "euculiar," "eulexithymia," "frobgnosticon," "hypolexithymia" "myriadoxy" and "quordic" mean? I got no hits for them online.

glitteringlynx

September 12 2008, 06:50:07 UTC 12 years ago

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hahaha Guelph. Great name, but not much to it, imo. It's downtown is nice, mind you. Takes about 45 mins to an hour to get there, depending on traffic and the like. Hey, it's worth checking out since its industry is farming, and U of Guelph is known for its Biology and Veterinary programs. :)

"Kenosis" sounds familiar, but then again I've taken so many science classes, it's nto surprising. However, I couldn't have said what it means.

The rest? Uh..

eulexithymia and hypolexithymia are related, obviously. "eu" has meant "new" in "eukaryotic" and "hypo" means a lessening or lowering (hypothermia, hypoglycemic, etc). So it's the lexithymia that's really odd.

*goes off hunting*

September 12 2008, 06:56:59 UTC 12 years ago

I *have* found:

a·lex·i·thy·mi·a /ˌeɪlɛksəˈθaɪmiə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ey-lek-suh-thahy-mee-uh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Psychiatry. difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotional responses.

The -thymia suffix refers to mental disorders. If we remove it, I managed to find:

Main Entry: hy·per·lex·ia
Pronunciation: -'lek-sE-&
Function: noun
: precocious reading ability accompanied by difficulties inacquiring language and social skills —hy·per·lex·ic /-sik/ adjective

a·lex·i·a /əˈlɛksiə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-lek-see-uh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Pathology. a neurologic disorder marked by loss of the ability to understand written or printed language, usually resulting from a brain lesion or a congenital defect.

Also called word blindness.

*digdigdig*

September 12 2008, 07:00:40 UTC 12 years ago

hypolexia

A Dictionary of Psychology | Date: 2001
hypolexia n. Another name for dyslexia.[From Greek hypo under + lexis a word + -ia indicating a condition or quality]

Given the definition, I think the "-thymia" suffix is just redundant and unnecessary. In context, I've found references to "eulexia" referring to people who read well. Again, the -thymia was likely redundant.

September 12 2008, 07:01:41 UTC 12 years ago

eulexia - (fr. Greek "eu," good/sweet and "lexis," words) n. The use of lush, highly descriptive language in speech or writing. Variations: eulexic, adj., Of, pertaining to, or having a lush, effusive style of speech or writing. eulexis: n., 1. The practice of cultivating such a style; 2. The use of such a style. eulexicize: v., To put an idea into eulexic language.

DONE!

How long did it take? :D

Ooo!

ysabetwordsmith

12 years ago

Re: Ooo!

Yay!

September 12 2008, 07:04:13 UTC 12 years ago

I know that "eu" can also mean "good" (as in "euphoria"); and "doxy" is "practice" or "teaching" (as in "orthodoxy"); "lex" often means "book" or "writing" (as in "lexicography").

Etymology is fun. When we were playing "Lord of the Rings" the other night, I got into a discussion about how "worg" and "vulg" are related (both fantasy terms for giant lupine monsters) through the Proto-Indo-European root "wlkw" for "wolf."

Myriadoxy

September 12 2008, 07:08:19 UTC 12 years ago

I'm getting the impression they're mostly made up, but I could be wrong.

myria-
a combining form meaning “10,000,” used esp. in the names of metric units equal to 10,000 of the unit denoted by the base word: myriagram; myriameter.

dox·y1 /ˈdɒksi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[dok-see] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural dox·ies. 1. opinion; doctrine.
2. religious views.

Perhaps 10,000 religious views?

Re: Myriadoxy

fayanora

September 12 2008, 08:21:24 UTC 12 years ago

Doxies are also whores or loose women, though, aren't they?

September 12 2008, 10:44:48 UTC 12 years ago

*looks up word again*

Yes, "doxy" is also an older term for a woman who is being used for sexual purposes. I had not known that. :D

dox·y (dŏk'sē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. dox·ies Slang
A female lover; a mistress.
A sexually promiscuous woman.

frobgnosticon

September 12 2008, 07:12:54 UTC 12 years ago

frob

/frob/
1. n. [MIT; very common] The TMRC definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnion"; by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing; an object that you can comfortably hold in one hand; something you can frob (sense 2). See frobnitz.
2. vt. Abbreviated form of frobnicate.
3. [from the MUD world] A command on some MUDs that changes a player's experience level (this can be used to make wizards); also, to request wizard privileges on the `professional courtesy' grounds that one is a wizard elsewhere. The command is actually `frobnicate' but is universally abbreviated to the shorter form.

gnostic I think is pretty obvious.. spiritual knowledge and wot wot.

-on 1
suff.

Subatomic particle: baryon.
Unit; quantum: photon.
Basic hereditary unit: codon.

My brain isn't putting this one together.

Also, I've attempted the rest and come up empty. :(

Re: frobgnosticon

September 12 2008, 07:17:29 UTC 12 years ago

Upon analysis of her profile page, I think it's quite telling when an "interest" has no corresponding links. Increases the chance of creative creation. Not a bad thing, I think we all do that. Just makes it difficult for comprehension. :(

September 12 2008, 22:21:20 UTC 12 years ago

1) "Frob" can also mean "to make large-scale movements on a switchboard to find out what the controls do." (It is followed by "twiddle" and "tweak," medium and small adjustments made to set the controls in a desired configuration.)

2) Unlinked interests can be cool. On my list, "Cyberfunded Creativity" started out that way, but now has a couple communities and several individuals claiming it. That helps spread the word. "Synthetic Energy" is still unlinked; I'm in the process of writing enough about that for other folks to recognize it.

Think, though -- this author hooked at least a couple new friends with those neologisms. I'm seriously thinking about putting more of mine into my Interests.

I'm guess at all this! Eeep!

fiction_theory

September 12 2008, 12:17:04 UTC 12 years ago

I'm pretty good with guessing word meanings because I took a lot of Latin and stuff.

I would think that

"eulexithymia" and "hypolexithymia" would relate to writing.

"eulexithymia" would, if I put the parts of the word together right, mean the state of mind or mental condition of writing good words or thinking of good words. The "EU" prefix means "good" or in biology it means something with a true membrane. Like, for instance, eukaryotic cells. And "lex" usually refers to writing, although I'd be careful because "lex" can also sometimes refer to legal things.

If it did refer to the law, it would be the mental condition of having good laws or something like that.

"hypolexithymia" would seem to be the state of mind of mental condition of writing too few words or thinking of too few words. There's an actual condition called "hypergraphia" in which a person writes compulsively and a lot.

As for "euculiar" - I think it might just be good. Peculiar is strange, and "eu" means good. Maybe it just means good. Or strangely good.

Myriadoxy has to be something like "many views/religions" something like maybe religious pluralism. I dunno.

Don't even ask me about the other words. Because all I could brain out for "frobgnosticon" is a diverse religious belief that can be manipulated or used to reach out? Maybe a manipulative diverse religion that reaches out and is manipulated.

These have to go either be really, really, really old words that got struck from the dictionary in, like, 1880 or made up ones.

Either way, I love them. I'm gonna go ask my f-list, because this is kinda fun.

Re: I'm guess at all this! Eeep!

September 12 2008, 12:39:49 UTC 12 years ago

Sorry, for "hypolexithymia" and "eulexithymia", substitute writing for "reading books".

The use of lex for writing is way, way rare. Sorry about that. Reading books and pertaining to books is the more common usage of it!

My Latin is gettin' rusty over here.

September 12 2008, 22:17:42 UTC 12 years ago

>> These have to go either be really, really, really old words that got
struck from the dictionary in, like, 1880 or made up ones. <<

Some of the words are in use elsewhere; some are neologisms by the blog's author. Yay, another wordsmith!

>> Either way, I love them. I'm gonna go ask my f-list, because this is
kinda fun. <<

That's why I wanted to share these. I love exotic words. I especially love the ones that encapsulate an idea that takes a paragraph to explain without them.

arielstarshadow

September 12 2008, 18:05:29 UTC 12 years ago

Hee! I added him, too! You know these words are going to show up on WotD at some point, yes?

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