Thread for increasing our vocabularies. Did you learn a new word? Have a word you'd love to share? Share it here! (I'd thought of doing an ASL word of the day as well, but I can be a bit camera shy sometimes, plus I'm not sure about sharing gifs and videos on a forum. It may yet happen.) My word today is: DIPSOMANIAC. Someone with dipsomania has uncontrollable cravings for alcohol.
One of those great words that you don't get to use often, but is perfect for when you need it: Aborsive (adj): abortive, unsuccessful or fruitless from the start, never begins. (I predict I will be posting in this thread quite a bit)
Resurrecting an old thread because I was about to start a word of the day thread with: Piscivorous: (pi-siv-er-uhs) adj. 1. Adapted to feeding on fish; fish-eating(I just like the way it sounds) Also, who here does the thing where you pronounce a word completely wrong because you learned the word in text form first?
I like to pronounce it as "mizzled". Made-up word: "Deceipt": Your proof that someone lied to you. Actual word: "Epistemology", the study of knowledge in and of itself. (For instance, "what is the difference between believing a thing and knowing a thing".)
I wonder what the general consensus is on the accuracy of Wiktionary, as it's my go-to source and I never considered its quality before now: I was looking up the etymology for 'cosmos' for Reasons and it turns out the plural for cosmos is either cosmoses or cosmoi. note that spellcheck here says the former is fine while the latter isn't. cosmoi is superior in my mind, as 'cosmoses' looks and sounds silly, but Merriam Webster and Cambridge Dictionary online do not have 'cosmoi'. Wiktionary has a few examples of cosmoi in use, the oldest being from 1850, so I imagine it'd be in one of those massive reference dictionaries, just not the little ones. that being said, I don't think there's ever been a point in my life where I've needed to pluralize cosmos.
METEMPSYCHOSIS noun the supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or a different species.