Favorite word

[Nymph]

Rapture- it's a name of a fictional underwater city from the game Bioshock

Nepeta- is a name of a troll from the webcomic Homestuck

there's a lot of words I like but not many come to my mind rn

 

[262653]

You'll like radius/radii then.
And necropolis/necropoli.

I do like it.
Also, genius/genii, nucleus/nuclei.

Ive recently learned the word "Philistine" , I dont use it when speaking but I think it should be a more well known.

Reminds me of "pristine", adjective -- about something pure, intact, unspoiled, in its original condition. Sounds to me like a female given name. Pristine Crowford. Pristine Adelaide. Pristine Silverfox.

Rapture- it's a name of a fictional underwater city from the game Bioshock

I keep confusing rapture and rupture, as I do regularly confuse words that look and sound similar but extremely differ in meaning.

 

[kitch]

Nuanced

 

[Studio84]

Discombobulated (confused and disconcerted)

 

[awfullife]

Moist

 

[Studio84]

Nincompoop (idiot)

 

[shadowchaser]

I have so many :) Here are some:
- Hiraeth
- Nostalgia
- Moonscape
- Saudade
- Petrichor

 

[lost_soul83]

Fuck, my favorite word is fuck. Sorry to be juvenile lol

 

[NodusTollens]

Copacetic:
Adj. Very Satisfactory

 

[painoflife]

Ragamuffin always made me giggle

 

[LONE WOLF.]

Giggettey giggettey goo!

 

[Aap]

Defenestration

 

[NodusTollens]

Fuck, my favorite word is fuck. Sorry to be juvenile lol

If you have Netflix, you may be interested in the comedy mini doc-series called, the History of Swear Words. :)

 

[262653]

Here's my currently favorite Dutch word: zonnebloemolie. I love to pronounce it as "zonneblomoli". It means sunflower oil. I read the name in the ingredient list of some peanut butter. There was even no need to visit the translator. Zonne + bloem + olie. Sounds like: Sonne (Sun in German) + bloom + oil, which makes perfect sense.

 

[LONE WOLF.]

The word 'Fart' always makes me snigger, but then l always have been a immature pipsqueak :-)

 

[nora.]

Death. the thing ive been longing for years.

 

[NodusTollens]

Here's my currently favorite Dutch word: zonnebloemolie. I love to pronounce it as "zonneblomoli". It means sunflower oil. I read the name in the ingredient list of some peanut butter. There was even no need to visit the translator. Zonne + bloem + olie. Sounds like: Sonne (Sun in German) + bloom + oil, which makes perfect sense.

Reminds me of the first time I heard "Augenlider," in the Rammstein song called Mein Herz Brennt, as a teen.

Sounded bad ass, but it means eyelids.
I couldn't help but laugh.

 

[262653]

@UnaccompaniedJourney Augenlider/eyelids. Reminds me of augur, auspex. They're somewhat related to sightseeing.

Laugh because it's a badass song with definitely-not-badass name?

I remember metal album called Orchid, by Opeth. It also has very peaceful cover.

Or you mean words that sound badass but have non-badass meaning?
I think Nordic languages have a lot of them. I can think of only one right now, and it's in Russian. Зверобой. (I think hypericum in English?)
The literal translation in English would be something like "beast slayer" or "beast bane". It's some kind of plant, and I used make tea from it.

 

[WornOutLife]

"Afterlife. "
I just find it amazing (even though I believe in eternal nothingness.)

 

[NodusTollens]

@UnaccompaniedJourney Augenlider/eyelids. Reminds me of augur, auspex. They're somewhat related to sightseeing.

Laugh because it's a badass song with definitely-not-badass name?

I remember metal album called Orchid, by Opeth. It also has very peaceful cover.

Or you mean words that sound badass but have non-badass meaning?
I think Nordic languages have a lot of them. I can think of only one right now, and it's in Russian. Зверобой. (I think hypericum in English?)
The literal translation in English would be something like "beast slayer" or "beast bane". It's some kind of plant, and I used make tea from it.

Oh, that's an interesting association, I didn't know whothat was & had to look it up.

The latter, I laughed at myself. I was so determined it was a bad sounding word, only to be let down.
& with a name that translates into beast slayer, it's definitely unexpected that it's a plant used in yea.

Mhmm. Can't go wrong with flowers. :)

 

[262653]

Oh, that's an interesting association, I didn't know whothat was & had to look it up.

Sometimes I check the etymology of words at https://www.etymonline.com/. There are so many words that have something together with other words, which allows for easier remembering bc it brings connectivity, association. And some words are just a conjunction of other words.

Like hypoglycemia. Hypo (low/under) + glyc (something about sugar, glucose) + emia (something about blood). You could guess it's about low sugar levels in blood. Without knowing what the whole word means, one can intuit the meaning by knowing something about its constituent parts.

A few words with hypo-: hypothermia would be something about low temperature (hypo + thermal), and hypothalamus is some part of the brain, which is, not coincidentally (co + incident), located just a little below thalamus. Btw, etymonline refers to "thalamus" as "inner chamber". Now, I don't know if that's the true background of the word, but it's good way of thinking about it. Thalamus is located somewhere deep deep in the middle of the brain. Inner chamber. I also think of the throne room.

Or reincarnation. Re (back, again) + in (in, duh) + carn (flesh, as carnal pleasures) + tion (noun formating suffix, I guess). Process of returning in flesh, or state of being returned in flesh.

 

[justsad&done]

serendipity

When I was a little kid, we used to have Serendipity Day at my school. And it was the best day.

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

愛 because it is reserved for very serious circumstances, if you want to tell someone you truly love them, leaps and bounds above normal affection, where you would say 好きだ
English does not have this level of nuance for some words and phrases, I could not think of an equivalent in English except maybe true love/devotion.

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Cherish

 

[L I F E T O L O S E]

n-word and c-word....

 

[newave3]

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Try to say that one.

 

[WaitingForTheBusInTh]

Miasma. Learned it from watching Inuyasha as a kid

 

[signifying nothing]

Miasma. Learned it from watching Inuyasha as a kid

Makes me think of chasm, which is another good word. Must be the 'asm'.

 

[262653]

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Try to say that one.

Pneumono ultra microscopic silico volcano coniosis

Divide and conquer

Miasma

I also heard miasmata, from Skyrim Requiem. Some dictionaries say it's a plural form. Maybe to describe different miasma, or miasma happening in different places at different times.

 

[signifying nothing]

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