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Do you dream of using ONEIROMANCY?

 Oneiromancy = divination or fortune-telling based on the interpretation of dreams

 "In the popular TV show American Gods, the character of Mr. Wednesday is known to possess the ability of oneiromancy, using dreams to guide his actions and gain an advantage over his enemies." --Chat GPT

All of my dreams are anxiety dreams about being lost or forgetting to go to class and then having to take the final. And my college days were decades ago.

Are you feeling TRUCULENT today?

TRUCULENT (adj) = hostile, aggressive, or defiant; difficult to deal with. "The truculent customer refused to leave the store, despite the manager's repeated requests." --Chat GPT

Are you omniloquent or do you only talk about sports?

 Omniloquent (adj) = able to talk about any and all subjects

"The keynote speaker was known for his omniloquent speeches that could captivate any audience, regardless of their background or interests." --ChatGPT

Ouroboric

OUROBORIC (adj) = self-referring. "...a unique ouroboric self-mirroring structure whereby the sky mirrors the earth and vice-versa." --Jadran Mimica, "Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography" (2007)

 

Do you jenticulate every morning?

What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...

JENTICULATE [jen-TIK-yew-LATI] (verb)

To eat breakfast

"Essentially, Agamemnon gives a long speech commanding the Greeks to jenticulate (which is the posh way of saying eat your breakfast)." --Mark Forsyth, "The Horologicon" (2013)

A Couple of Haikus

Pooling in heel-prints
I think I am going up
Love is a shadow

Belted by summer
From the bristling foliage
I look through windows

Are you into MAMMONISM?

What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...

MAMMONISM [MAM-un-IS-em] (noun)

The greedy pursuit of riches

"Between Mammonism and myself there is a war to the knife, the knife to the hilt, the hilt to the hand."
--Mercer Green Johnston, "Patriotism and Radicalism" (1917)

Are you happy that it's finally FRONDESCENTIA?

What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...

FRONDESCENTIA [FRON-dess-SEN-tee-UH] (noun)
It refers to the "leafing season", or the time of the year when plants unfold their leaves -- springtime, in other words.

"Frondescentia is the leafing of a plant; florescentia is, for like reason, the flowering of a plant."
--"The Analectic Magazine" (1817)

 

You might be ICARIAN, Mr. P

What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...

ICARIAN [ih-KAIR-ee-UHN]  (adjective or noun)

Having qualities similar to the Greek mythological character Icarus, especially his excessive ambition and recklessness

"Predictably, the hazardous displays of the Icarian are prone to provoke countertransference reactions that, much like a failed parachute, collapse an analytic attitude."
--Terrence McBride, Maureen Murphy, "Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle" (2019)

Zzzz... Are you suffereing from DYSANIA?

What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...

DYSANIA [dis-AY-nee-uh]  (noun)

The state of having a hard time waking up and getting out of bed in the morning

"Will our postdigital universe emerge carelessly from the griffonages of a soggy-brained professor, afflicted with dysania, or from some bio-powered hard drive afflicted by a crapulent program created by some cocaine-addicted technician working a second job in a meth lab?"
--Peter McLaren, Petar Jandric, Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology (2020)