I like words. I know a fair few of them. I want to know more. What are your favorite esoteric words?

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[–] 12 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I hate saying it, it feels bad in my mouth. Anthropomorphize is kind of fun though.

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    sesquipedalian:
    • a foot and a half
    • a really long word
    • referring to a user of really long words

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 child)
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    I just thought of one that I've never had cause to use in conversation: "philomot," meaning "having the color of a dead leaf."

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    Palimpsest - it's like a document that's been re-used but still shows some of the previous words underneath. Or a bit like a whiteboard that has 'burnt-in' marker showing after being erased.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago

    Just my normal quotidian vocabulary

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago* (2 children)

    Try these on for size:

    Epicaricacy - Schadenfreude, but sounds fancier

    Coprophagous - shit eating. As in: "A coprophagous grin"

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

    Used to be known by pretty much every kid in at least the US.

    (Edited to clarify that maybe outside the US also)

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (3 children)

    Was The Sound of Music only popular in the US? I'd assumed it was also popular in Europe given the setting.

    Also, this word was an exercise in the gifted classes I got put in in elementary school. The idea was to try to spell it without looking it up.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    I don't know about The Sound of Music (I've only seen clips) but supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was popularized here (and maybe elsewhere) by Mary Poppins.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Am I mixing up the movies maybe? It's quite early here so my brain may not be working at 100%.

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    I mix those two movies up, too, so you're at least not alone! They're both older movies about awesome/magical ladies taking care of kids, if I remember correctly, with lots of music and singing. So I get it.

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    Encumbered, obsequious, defenestration, solastalgia

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    Contemporaneously. (At precisely the same time).

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    Sorry, I'm not very tech savvy.

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  • Not a problem. Google is shitty for this, they didn’t disclaim that their “share” button now re-route your link into their servers so they can leverage meta-data out of it.

    It’s back to copy/paste url in your browser because google enshittify your share button. Not your fault

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    Yesterday I was trying to think of the difference between audacious and bodacious and I could really use some help with that.

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    • chargé d'affaires
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