![]() ![]() Scripturient-possessed by a violent desire to write, incessantly. Generally unelected, adhocracies get the job done, but only when there is a job that needs doing, and generally because no one else wants to do it. In a sentence: Kamala Harris spanked Pence so thoroughly in adhocracy (n)Ī system of government formed ad hoc, as needed, impromptu, to suite the needs of a given moment or problem. Meaning “rear end rubbed smooth,” or more simply, “buttless ” deriving from the myth of Theseus, who got his butt stuck to a cursed rock in hell, and had to leave some of it behind in the process of getting unstuck. ![]() A word I sort of like, because it has mnemonic de-“use”tude scrambled into the middle, and that makes the word, which hypolipsos (adj) A very fancy way of saying “unused.” Etymology: early 17th century (in the sense ‘cessation’): from French, from Latin desuetudo, from desuet- ‘made unaccustomed’, from the verb desuescere, from de- (expressing reversal) + suescere ‘be accustomed’. ![]() ![]() A sad word, I think, in that it reflects our desuetude (n) It is related to pareidolia, a type of apophenia involving the perception of images or sounds in random stimuli. Originally invented to describe schizophrenic thought patterns, but can also be applied to conspiracy theorists, QAnon, etc. The tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. ![]()
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