Monday, June 29, 2015

Today's words

On this list of 13 (with apologies for sending the reader to what is clearly a marketing site), I knew six, and have experienced at least three or four others. My new ones, plus a couple of bonus words discovered when looking up ones links for the ones from the list that I didn't know:

overmorrow - the day after tomorrow, apparently obsolete
which lead to the also obsolete
ereyesterday - the day before yesterday

eigengrau - the uniform dark gray background that many people report seeing in the absence of light
apparently also virtually obsolete
dysania -  state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning
very rarely used
eyesome - pleasant to look at
archaic
 anuptaphobia - the fear of remaining unmarried or being married to the wrong person
a rare word, but its roots make perfect sense
collop - 1. a small piece or slice especially of meat  2. a fold of fat flesh
the only of these words to be both common enough and current enough to be included on Merriam-Webster's site. Also, the first I think I've heard before.
lethologica - the inability to remember a word or put your finger on the right word
The Free Dictionary entry for this word then led me to the related
loganamnosis - the obsession with trying to recall a word that one wishes to use


 


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