#interesting words

[drmorbius12]

Today's three favorite words

Eroticism

Grotesquerie

Nonsense

Make of them what you will.

[sylvanthorn]

Learning stuff everyday…. Didn’t know how amazing Sunflowers are

[ardent-reflections]

Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses to see which one fits best?

Sylvia Plath

[artshirtstickers]

(via "Alvesart - Ever Thank God" Graphic T-Shirt for Sale by Alvesart) “Display your gratitude in style! Our ‘Ever Thank God’ t-shirt is a daily reminder to give thanks. Comfortable, durable and perfect for any occasion. Always be grateful!”

[y0urnewstepp4r3nt]

Does anyone else find themselves changing the words they want to use to lesser words that mean the same but sound so boring all because people don't understand and then tell you, you're in the wrong for using those words when there is a simpler version?

E.g

Baffled = Confused

Detrimental = to cause harm

Delinquent = a young person committing crime

Travesty = absurd = unreasonable / out of ordinary

(I know I could have phrased it better but that is how I have to phrase it for people so they understand)

Tell me your favourite words please <3

[soapdispensersalesman]

subterfuge

[relativeimperfection]

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[thefuturetraveller]

Looseleft adj.

feeling a sense of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you’ve gotten to know so well. From looseleaf, a removable sheet of paper + left, departed.

- A dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig

[emeraldlabyrinth]

Now I want a small list of my own. I feel mine may be a little more mundane than yours though. (I find pleasure in many common words)

1.) Sonder - The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers, passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

2.) Elqouenece - Persuasive, moving, or graceful actions 3.) Adore - To love something or someone deeply and devotedly

4.) Arresting - Attracting and holding one's attention

5.) Quail - To shrink back in fear or disgust (I quail at the thought!) 6.) Duality - Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring. 7.) Lunatic - Someone with an unsound mind 8.) Bourne - A boundary or a goal/destination

Another List of "Beautiful" Words

to include in your next poem

Avidulous - somewhat greedy.

Breviloquent - marked by brevity of speech.

Compotation - a drinking or tippling together.

Crimpy - of weather; unpleasant; raw and cold.

Desiderium - an ardent desire or longing; especially, a feeling of loss or grief for something lost.

Dyspathy - lack of sympathy.

Ebriosity - habitual intoxication.

Epitasis - the part of a play developing the main action and leading to the catastrophe.

Fantod - a state of irritability and tension.

Graumangere - a great meal.

Grimoire - a magician's manual for invoking demons and the spirits of the dead.

Hiemal - of or relating to winter.

Illaudable - deserving no praise.

Impluvious - wet with rain.

Innominate - having no name; unnamed; also, “anonymous”.

Juberous - doubtful and hesitating.

Noctilucous - shining at night.

Poetaster - an inferior poet.

Psychrophilic - thriving at a relatively low temperature.

Quiddity - the essential nature or ultimate form of something: what makes something to be the type of thing that it is.

Repullulate - to bud or sprout again.

Retrogradation - a backward movement.

Semiustulate - half burnt or consumed by fire.

Tenebrific - causing gloom or darkness.

Unparadiz’d - brought from joy to miserie.

If any of these words make it into your next poem/story, please tag me. Or leave a link in the replies. I'd love to read them!

beautiful words list pt. 2

[everwalldigan]

Bruce: *waking up in a hospital that he drove himself to after having a heart attack and telling absolutely nobody* hey…

The entirety of the batclan looking over him with Dick in the centre, an absolute terrifying grin on his face:

Dick: hello Bruce, nice evening isn’t it? Got something to share with us?

Edit: the fic is now out on ao3! https://archiveofourown.org/works/57780508

[artistotel]

hey! for todays protest, i made this little zine about palestine (holding just simple and basic information).

you can download the zine here, fold it yourself, and distribute it around.

no credit is needed. feel free to leave it around bars, protests, or wherever. simply print it (borderless) and fold it. here is a tutorial on how to do it.

dont stay silent. there is a genocide of horrendous, atrocious proportions going on. also if you are a zionist here to argue with me, i dont plan to entertain you at all, not on my art blog. fuck off, you'll be swiftly blocked. i see enough of you clowns on my main and i have no energy for you. you can skip the death threats too bc i dont give a shit.

(i'm off to get ready for a surgery now, i just wanted to post it before this. if you need anything, i might take a bit to reply)

[sylvanthorn]

This is a day for the dreamers. The thinkers. The quiet ones. The ones sitting in the back of the room or standing at the edges. The ones who know more than they show and feel more than they let on. Today we celebrate introverts.

I have thunder hidden inside. Rumi

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

[riot-in-reverie]

Bellicostic

Adjective| Meaning: Aggressive, belligerent, or warlike.

[soapdispensersalesman]

kernel

[inkskinned]

i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.

most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.

it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.

and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).

i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.

grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.