code of ethics

(ethics) A list of statements or exemplars used by organizations to guide their members in differentiating between right and wrong and in applying understandings to their decision making.


ravenness

Not only are shoes and ravens not exchangeable, but it is to say the least questionable whether we should regard ravenness as positively relevant to blackness on the evidence of the white shoe.

1974, Mary B. Hesse, The Structure of Scientific Inference, page 160:

(philosophy) The quality of being a raven.


antipragmatist

(philosophy) One who rejects pragmatism.


antipragmatic

en-adj

antipragmatic (comparative more antipragmatic, superlative most antipragmatic)

more antipragmatic (comparative)
most antipragmatic (superlative)

(philosophy) Opposing or rejecting pragmatism.


antipragmatism

(philosophy) A viewpoint that rejects pragmatism.


finger heart

A heart shape formed with the tips of the thumb and index finger (🫰). It originates in South Korea.


Last Judgement

(chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of Last Judgment.


child diddler

(slang, derogatory) Synonym of kiddy fiddler


by extension

He argued that the failure of a democratic government, by extension, meant the failure of the people.

(logic) Used to connect the internal logic of two statements.


unicorn hunter

en:Austrogomphus cornutus
en:Unicorn hunting

Someone who invests in startups that may become unicorns (startups whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars).


defector-in-place

(espionage) A person who defects to a foreign power but remains in their home country so as to gather information etc.


denied area

(US, espionage) An extremely hostile operational environment with heavy surveillance.


red-tagging

(Philippines, Philippine politics) The ad hominem practice of branding, naming or accusing individuals or organizations critical or not fully supportive of the government's position as communists, leftists, subversives or terrorists in an attempt to discredit or suppress them; red-baiting


dark academia

Reportedly first emerged as an aesthetic tag on Tumblr in the mid-2010s.

Dark Academia has received valid criticism for its Eurocentrism and elitism.

2021, Jacqueline Kipping, "Dark academia", The Issue (Radboud University), Fall 2021, page 21

I thought that dark academia and brownstone mansions were all that Boston had to offer, or at least, it didn’t occur to me to even consider what might be beyond my idealistic vision.

2021, Caitlin Haviland, "Breaking the BU Bubble", The Buzz (Boston University), Fall 2021, page 67

As a recent example of the ‘dark academia’ trend in literature, the novel effectively examines and subverts the romanticised view of so-called ‘prestigious’ universities.

2023, Rebecca van Besouw, "Literature Spotlight: Babel by RF Kuang", PDBY (University of Pretoria), 8 May 2023, page 11

(Internet) An aesthetic popularized in the 2010s, centered on higher education, writing, the arts, and classic Greek and Gothic architecture, as well as romantic longing and death.


purposivism

(philosophy, religion) philosophy, especially religious, that treats will or conscious intent as a basal fact


substituend

Borrowed from Latin substituendus; compare substituendum.

Each substituend SN, it seems, would amount to the same thing as its corresponding UN in SOME not very strained context.

1972, John King-Farlow, W.N. Christensen, “Probability and the 'Will to Believe'”, in Logic, Identity, and Consistency, D. Reidel, →ISBN, page 177:

Note that a variable is a substituend of a variable only in a vacuous sense , and so we shall be ignoring them while speaking of the substituends of a given variable.

1998, Pranab Kumar Sen, Logic, Identity, and Consistency (Studies in Philosophical and Non-Standard Logic; II), Allied Publishers, →ISBN, page 134:

The pragmatic process of substitution requires some given context to provide an appropriate substituend for a metavariable projected by a pronoun.

2006 March 13, Lutz Martin, “Relative Clause Construal”, in The Dynamics of Language, Brill, →ISBN, page 85:

(logic, linguistics) A substitute; something that substitutes for another.


meme stock

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-meme stock.wav

Journalists covering the story have tended to gesture towards possible impetuses, and there are undoubtedly many underlying factors that led to r/wallstreetbets’ choosing GameStop as a “meme stock”, which have surely evolved with the saga (screwing Wall Street; making money; a genuine belief in the fundamentals of GameStop’s business model).

2021 January 28, Dan Dixon, “Anarchy, in-jokes and trolling: the GameStop fiasco is 4chan-think in action”, in The Guardian:

Individual YOLO decisions can be chalked up to many factors: cabin fever, low interest rates, the emergence of new get-rich-quick schemes like NFTs and meme stocks.

2021 April 21, Kevin Roose, “Welcome to the YOLO Economy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(finance, Internet slang) A company's stock that is hyped up and overbought by inexperienced investors, leading it to be overvalued.


moral universe

The moral nature of the universe as a whole in relation to human life, or a specific moral code.


teleophobia

From German Teleophobie in the late 19th century. The OED considers the word modern Latin, but the earliest appearance is in the writing of Karl Ernst von Baer in German in the 1860s. Whatever the immediate source it can be analyzed as teleo- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “purpose”) + -φοβία (-phobía, “-phobia”).

1912, Friedrich Paulsen, translated by Frank Thilly, Einleitung in die Philosophie [Introduction to Philosophy]:

v. Baer is evidently right: the current view is afflicted with teleophobia. It seems to me that he is also right in finding the reason for it, not in nature, but in the natural scientist's fear of a false teleology. Teleophobia is the reaction against the old teleology of design, which repudiated and wished to replace a causal explanation.

In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.”

[1952, D. Maurice Allan, “Towards a Natural Teleology”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 49, number 13, →DOI:

[…]the teleophobia of biologists and physicists should not be carried over to the human sciences.

1960, “New Books”, in Philosophy, volume 35, number 133:

(philosophy) Reluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.


snowmanness

It cannot be regarded as a spatio-temporally dispersed individual (like a football team) which has different properties (such as polar bearness or snowmanness) in different spatio-temporal regions.

1992, S: European Journal for Semiotic Studies, volume 4, page 68:

Or maybe being-a-snowman is just a way of describing some more fundamental property upon which snowmanness supervenes?

2010, Tamar Szabó Gendler, “Part II. Pretense, Imagination, and Belief”, “Imaginative Resistance”, “9. The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance (2000)”, in Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 193:

Furthermore, we can rate the degree of fuzziness. If something is a definite fact, it is given a value of 1. If it is definitely untrue, it is given the value of 0. For our snowman, if it is a perfect snowman it has the value of 1 and if it is a blob it has a value of 0. As the weather gradually wears away its snowmanness, its fuzzy value slowly moves from 1 down to 0.

2013, Ayub V. O. Ofulla, “Chapter One: Chaos-Order Relationships and the Ancient Concepts of Continuous Creations”, in The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge: How Understanding Things in the Physical Realm Nurtures Life, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 18:

(philosophy) The quality of being a snowman.


metatime

en-noun

metatime (countable and uncountable, plural metatimes)

This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make.

1999, Roger E. A. Farmer, Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies, →ISBN, page 213f.:

How does the concept of sacred metatime fit into the scientific worldview, which proposes both a Big Bang at the beginning of this universe[…]

2008, James R. Adair, Introducing Christianity, →ISBN, page 38:

Now consider what happens when the Terminators travel back in time to 1994. They travel back to a 1994 that is located at a different metatime, t₂.

2009 May 13, William Irwin, Richard Brown, Kevin S. Decker, Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am, →ISBN, page 149:

My Setacia story was, I admit, simplistic—deliberately, riskily so—but its main purpose was to present a valid point about time and meta-time.

2014 July 24, Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion, →ISBN, page 148:

A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.


Calzona

And as long as they were together, Calzona (Callie + Arizona) were a model couple.

2016, Claudia Riconda, Grey’s Pride: How Grey’s Anatomy Has Changed Our Lives, unnumbered page:

As for Ramirez, she'd debut on CBS's Madam Secretary a year and a half later, and with a new look that restored the pulses of Calzona fans everywhere.

2021, Lesley Goldberg, quoted in Lynette Rice, How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy, unnumbered page

Javi also delivered a eulogy memorializing the breakup of Calzona and their sapphic love.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins from the television series Grey's Anatomy.


analysandum

(philosophy) A theory that lacks any fundamental explanation required for said theory to be sound

(philosophy) A misconception created by explaining without defining, or concluding without explaining

(philosophy) A certain way of speaking about a phenomenon, a way that creates logical and intuitive problems


allophilia

allophilia (countable and uncountable, plural allophilias)

/ˌæləˈfɪliə/

The quality of having positive intergroup attitudes, i.e., positive attitudes towards outgroup members, those with characteristics different from one's own, such as people of different races, religions, cultures, etc.


SVR

From Russian СВР (SVR), initialism of Служба Внешней Разведки (Služba Vnešnej Razvedki, “Foreign Intelligence Service”).

international relations
international relations

(initialism, Russia, politics, espionage, international relations) The civilian external intelligence directorate of Russia

СВР

Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, Foreign Intelligence Service


love conquers all

Calque of Latin Omnia vincit amor, from Eclogue X by Virgil.Wikisource ˡᵃ

I used to believe love conquers all / 'Cause that's what's seen in movies

2013, “Someone Else”, performed by Miley Cyrus:

Love is a powerful force that overcomes all obstacles.


contrapositively

(logic) By the inverse of the converse of a given proposition.


dadcore

Dadcore is more narrowly defined by being rip-snorting action movies—many of them hardcore and rated R—in which the plot is vaguely defined by a male character seeking revenge or vengeance or some kind of justice (spiritual or otherwise), usually outside the letter of the law. […] Most of the time, the main characters in these movies are either fathers or form some kind of surrogate father relationship with a younger character, keeping the "by dads, for dads" central message of dadcore steadily intact.

2014 February 24, Drew Taylor, “From Die Hard to Non-Stop: The Beginner’s Guide to “Dadcore””, in Vanity Fair:

But does fatherhood really mean I have to become “dadcore” – wearing clothing that is comfortable, with no real regard for fit or appearance and, according to this paper’s own style guru, Hadley Freeman, “anything from Marks & Spencer’s Blue Harbour range” – and abandon my penchant for linen blazers and cordovan slip-ons in favour of machine-washable hoodies and trainers?

2015 August 29, Robin Sherwood, “Will I start dressing ‘dadcore’ when I become a father?”, in The Guardian:

My two best friends wore what they normally wore, which was to say a combination of low-performance joggers and blank polos that were so normcore, they went through dadcore and into weekend dadcore beyond.

2020, David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song, New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 51:

The news that Folklore was coming and that it was a collaboration with Aaron Dessner of the National and that it included a duet with Bon Iver gave me a feeling that can best be summed up as: Uh-oh. A dadcore record. But Swift already had the dads. Dads are low-hanging fruit.

2020 July 29, Taylor Antrim, “‘It’s Halfway to Lover’: Thoughts on Folklore From an 8-Year-Old”, in Vogue:

A genre, aesthetic, or fashion trend stereotypically associated with fatherhood or particularly popular among fathers.


Christianophilia

The love or admiration of the values of Christianity or of Christian civilization.


aspective

The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.

1915, George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, George Edward Moore, Mind, page 507:

We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.

1977, William Powell Tuck, The Struggle for Meaning, page 78:

While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives.

1985, Wallace Charles Smith, The Church in the Life of the Black Family, page 50:

The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.

2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism:

(philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.


appeal to motive

appeal to motive (plural appeals to motive)

(philosophy) A form of an ad hominem attack consisting of questioning someone's motives to dismiss their claim.


coalternate

(logic, of a set of propositions) mutually alternate


observer's paradox

observer's paradox (plural observer's paradoxes)

The situation in which a phenomenon being observed for study is unintentionally influenced by the presence of the observer.


quodlibetal

(philosophy) Of or relating to quodlibet.


love story

→ German: Lovestory

→ Italian: love story


wuxing

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 五行 (wǔxíng).

the five fundamental elements or phases of processes in traditional East Asian cosmology, consisting of fire, water, wood, metal, and earth


universal mind

This brings in the 'universal mind' and idealism hinges on the recognition of a universal mind in which all things exist .

1958, Pakistan Philosophical Congress. Session, Proceedings, page 208:

If God, the divine Source, is understood as Light, then the universal mind is that which divides that Light into myriad forms and patterns in time and space.

2003, John Davidson, A Treasury of Mystic Terms, page 111:

The universal mind is the primary agent in the process of Tawhid, directed by and functioning at the pleasure of the Creator.

2006, Anis Obeid, Anis Ubayd, The Druze and Their Faith in Tawhid, page 138:

The material reality you create when one with the universal mind is completely different from the material reality you create when cut off from universal mind. You think these thoughts in alignment with universal mind and they become things in alignment with universal mind.

2018, Dawson Church, Mind to Matter, page 282:

(metaphysics) an underlying essence or consciousness in the universe


love language

Popularized in The Five Love Languages (1992) by Gary Chapman.

Messed up grammar will mess up the hearts of folks who experience this love language. Show you care by intentionally misspeeling taxts to yuour sweeety.

2019 February 14, James Folta, Kasey Borger, “New Love Languages”, in McSweeney's Internet Tendency:

Her husband’s love language was kind words and positive affirmations.

2022 August 27, Alisha Haridasani Gupta, Luis Mazon, “The Sixth Love Language Does Not Exist”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A medium through which one shows appreciation of or affection for another, such as complimenting, giving gifts, or spending time together.

Gary Chapman (author)
The Five Love Languages

Liebessprache

medium through which one shows appreciation and affection


false equivalence

false equivalence (plural false equivalences)

A logical fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning.


monosyllogistic

(logic) Relating to, or expressed as a monosyllogism


noninstrumentalist

(philosophy) One who opposes instrumentalism.


henism

(obsolete, philosophy) The theory that mind and matter are all the one type of substance


superfact

(philosophy) A fact that surpasses all others


metaphenomenal

(philosophy) That can only be perceived through abstract thought rather than by the senses.


pseudoproposition

(philosophy, logic) A spurious or meaningless proposition


quoddity

Coordinate term: quiddity

They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――

1744, A Dialogue Between the Rev. Mr. Jenkin Evans and Mr. Peter Dobson, concerning Bishops., London: M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noſter-row, →OCLC, page 37:

(philosophy) The individual identity of something.


eubouliatic

From Ancient Greek εὐβουλία (euboulía) + -tic.

On the basis of the last square of opposition, Anderson [1968] suggests christening the topic (provided that it is worth pursuing) eubouliatic logic, the logic of prudence and related concepts, just as deontic logic is the logic of obligation and related concepts.

1987, Introduction to Deontic Logic and the Theory of Normative Systems:

(logic, rare) Pertaining to the modality of safety or prudence.


Moism

(Chinese philosophy) Alternative form of Mohism


aprioricity

On the other hand, positive philosophy is empirical aprioricity, or it is the empiricism of the a priori, to the extent that it proves itself the prius per posterius as God.

2010 July 21, Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 3: Notebooks 1-15, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 695:

He claims that Kant's transcendental proofs, at least of the necessity of the law of causality, are not directed towards establishing the truth or validity of causal law, but only its aprioricity.

2015 January 30, Dale Jacquette, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Routledge, →ISBN:

(philosophy) Alternative form of apriority.


QAnonsense

Will our next president need to replace Trump’s appointees with people who are loyal to our Constitution rather than Trump’s deep state swamp Qanonsense? Probably the sooner we find out the answer to that the better.

2020 June 5, Don Galloway, “After Trump is gone”, in The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Friday’s Letters to the Editor:

Those who subscribe to QAnonsense are too far gone, and the relatively sane Republicans will call you a socialist no matter what.

2021 January 20, Garrett Snedaker, “Letters to the Editor”, in The New York Times, page 26:

We would be wise not to laugh at the antics of Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has spouted QAnonsense and compared mask mandates to the Nazi treatment of Jews, or else she could ride similar waves of derision to even greater political heights.

2021 June 9, John Feffer, “We’re not out of the woods yet”, in The Nation:

(derogatory) Conspiracy theories or other statements by followers of QAnon that are asserted to be nonsense.


sorites paradox

sorites paradox (plural sorites paradoxes)

(logic) A paradox arising from vague predicates and repeatedly applying a small difference. For example, removing one grain from a heap of sand still leaves a heap, yet removing enough grains will eventually not leave a heap.


self-recognition

(philosophy) The experience of one's own life, personality, etc.; recognition of oneself as a full-bodied individual.


MASINT

w:measurement and signature intelligence

Abbreviation of measurement and signature intelligence.


effective altruism

This is the language of effective altruism — or E.A. — a philanthropic movement premised on the use of reason and data to do good. Bankman-Fried had long flaunted his E.A. bona fides to distinguish himself from other crypto billionaires.

2022 December 9, Jennifer Szalai, “Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them?”, in The New York Times:

He is a supposedly serious young man who was celebrated in the corridors of power not only as a financial savant but also—through his highly publicized philanthropy and conspicuous association with the “effective altruism” movement—as a moral genius.

2023 January 25, Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The People Who Don’t Read Books”, in The Atlantic:

(ethics, philosophy) A philosophy and social movement that advocates the use of evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others.


hyperproperty

(logic, physics) A generalisation of a property (or sets of properties)


unbegottenness

(theology) The quality of being unbegotten.


dance with the devil

en-verb

dance with the devil (third-person singular simple present dances with the devil, present participle dancing with the devil, simple past and past participle danced with the devil)

dances with the devil (present singular third-person)
dancing with the devil (participle present)
danced with the devil (participle past)
danced with the devil (past)

(informal, idiomatic) To engage in risky and immoral behavior.


paralogistic

(logic) Relating to paralogy; fallacious


vowelist

(theology) One who maintains that the vowel points in Hebrew Scripture are part of the original text and thus of divine rather than human origin.


metacogitate

metacogitate (third-person singular simple present metacogitates, present participle metacogitating, simple past and past participle metacogitated)

metacogitates (present singular third-person)
metacogitating (participle present)
metacogitated (participle past)
metacogitated (past)

(philosophy) To think about thought itself


Euhemerus

From Latin Euhemerus, from Ancient Greek Εὐήμερος (Euḗmeros, from εὐ- (eu-, “good-, well-”) + ἥμερος (hḗmeros, “tamed, civilized, domesticated”)).

der

(historical) An ancient Greek Sicilian Skeptic philosopher, famed for a lost work proposing most or all mythology derived from historical figures and natural events which became supernatural only through retelling.


factory farming

intensive agriculture
intensive agriculture

(derogatory) A type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry, designed to maximize production while minimizing costs.

bio-industrie

type of intensive agriculture to maximize production and minimize costs


ideogenetic

In such an ideogenetic theory, the mind does not form the species, as Matthew claims, but sensation begins with a reception.

1960, Helen Marie Beha, Matthew of Aquasparta's Theory of Cognition:

This extreme ideogenetic view would make the function of divine illumination that of a kind of separate active intellect: in fact, God would Himself be an ontologically separate active intellect which infuses ideas into the human mind […]

2003, Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy, page 64:

In his ideogenetic view, these fixed ideas constitute the very heart of the symptoms of the disorder. A patient with traumatic hysteria with a paralyzed leg would thus have developed the fixed idea that his leg had become paralyzed […]

2015, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, The Trinity of Trauma, page 30:

(philosophy) Originating ideas or images.


primitive notion

en-noun

primitive notion (plural primitive notions)

In geometry, points and lines are primitive notions.

We do not find the primitive notion of cause in the action of the will on our nervous and muscular organization, and much less in the force communicated by the muscles to external objects. A perfect paralysis of the muscles could not prevent the internal act of the will. The primitive notion of personal cause, to wit, our own will, becomes the type and condition of the notion of cause in general, and of external impersonal causes.

1874, Louis Eugène Marie Bautain, Epitome of the history of philosophy, New York:Harper:

(philosophy) A concept that cannot be defined in terms of other concepts.


kenlore

From ken + lore, used by William Kingdon Clifford to translate the German Erkenntnistheorie.

(philosophy) epistemology; theory of knowledge


metaphysical naturalism

(philosophy, metaphysics) Philosophical worldview which holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences.

naturalisme métaphysique

the view that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations


onticity

(philosophy, metaphysics) One's ontic attributes.


asphyxiophiliac

I am an asphyxiophiliac. I started to strangle myself when I was sixteen. I didn't hang myself, however, I choked!

1995, John M. Grossberg, Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors, Wiley, →ISBN, page 112:

The lust murderer, the necrophile, the autassassinophilac and the asphyxiophiliac are defined and diagnosed within sexology partly by their compulsion to perform their act.

2011, Sarah Toulalan, Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present, Springer, →ISBN, page 217:

McCarry was an asphyxiophiliac who had a history of engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation and Waters had full knowledge of this fact.

2016, Dennis J. Baker, Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences, Routledge, →ISBN, page 270:

A person who enjoys erotic asphyxiation.


double effect

(philosophy) The situation where an otherwise legitimate act (for example, relieving a terminally ill patient's pain) may also cause an effect one would otherwise be obliged to avoid (e.g. sedation and a slightly shortened life).


gayling

They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.

2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:

(LGBTQ slang) A young or immature gay (homosexual) person.


NROL

(US, government, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of National Reconnaissance Office launch.. An NRO spacelaunch for delivering a high security government payload into space.


NSSL

Coordinate term: EELV

(US, politics, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of National Security Space Launch program.; a U.S. government program for assured access to space


NSSL

national security
national security#English

(US, politics, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of national security spacelaunch.; a high security spacelaunch of U.S. government payloads, such as spy satellites


EELV

Coordinate term: NSSL

(US, politics, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.; a U.S. government program for assured access to space


EELV

(US, politics, military, espionage, aerospace) Initialism of evolved expendable launch vehicle.; a rocket developed under the EELV government program


Elistic

From El + -istic, relative adjective to Elism.

In due time she conceived and bore a son who was given the Elistic name שְׁמוּאֵל (1 Sam 1:20), […]

1989, Choon-Leong Seow, Myth, Drama, and the Politics of David's Dance (Harvard Semitic Monograph; 46), Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, published 2018, →ISBN, page 30:

Some scholars adopting the Qenite hypothesis in its original or modified form, which supposes that the Qenites were the mediators of the Yahwistic cult to Israel, assume that Yhwh was a North Arabian storm god, a rival of the Canaanite Baal who gradually adopted Elistic qualities.

2001, Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo Korpel, Karel Vriezen, Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel, London • New York: Sheffield Academic Press, →ISBN, page 94:

The Arabic tradition transmits a number of South Arabian elistic personal names of the type verb+<ʾīl>. […] In this paper, I look at the elistic names s²rḥʾl / s²rhbʾl and compare them with how they occur in non-Arabic sources. […] A similar elistic name is that of tawbīl, which corresponds to ṯwbʾl in the ESA corpora. […] If the hamza would have been retained when the South Arabian elistic names were borrowed into Arabic and lost at a later moment in time, one would expect […] In the North Arabian Arabic inscriptions written in Greek, elistic names in which the theophoric element occurs in post-vocalic position are consistently spelled with epsilon […] Conclusions […] That this vowel was originally long and was not the result of compensatory lengthening is further supported by the attestation of other South Arabian onomastics in Arabic, as well as by Greek transcriptions of South Arabian elistic names.

2021, Imar Y. Koutchoukali, “12: The quantity of the vowel <i> in the Sabaic word for God (ʾl): evidence from Arabic and Greek sources”, in George Hatke, Ronald Ruzicka, editors, South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity. “Out of Arabia”, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN:

Containing reference to the Semitic god ʔil.


online dating

→ German: Onlinedating

In the digital age, everything must at some point be reduced to this basic construct of choice: One or zero. Yes or no. On or off. Subscribers to online dating sites are forced to come up with a list of their desires. Red hair? Yes or no. Over 30 O.K.? Please check a box.

2010 February 11, Scott James, “In the Calculations of Online Dating, Love Can Be Cruel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Dating over the Internet, typically using a website or app to find potential connections.


Loudcest

(fandom slang) Incestuous shipping of The Loud House characters, particularly those from the Loud family, most notably Lincoln Loud and any of his sisters.


catch feelings

en-verb

catch feelings (third-person singular simple present catches feelings, present participle catching feelings, simple past and past participle caught feelings)

catches feelings (present singular third-person)
catching feelings (participle present)
caught feelings (participle past)
caught feelings (past)

The deal was that if anyone started catching feelings, he could throw up a stop sign and the other would honor it.

2007, Marissa Monteilh, Dr. Feelgood, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 27:

(intransitive, colloquial) To suddenly begin to feel romantic attraction (towards). [with for ‘someone’]


otherwiseness

The invalidity of a cognition is the otherwiseness of its object, and is known by a sublating cognition. The illusory cognition of silver knows illusory silver, but does not know its otherwiseness.

1973, Jadunath Sinha, A History of Indian Philosophy, volume 4, page 174:

(philosophy) The quality of being otherwise.


dialogicity

(philosophy) The state in which the self is fundamentally connected to others, oneself, and the world, via dialogue.


ligma

Used for its sounding similarity to "lick my (balls)" in colloquial speech.
Perhaps reminiscent of Greek terms like sigma, omega, tagma, etc., used commonly in English in various scientific contexts.

"Hey, have you heard of ligma?" "What's ligma?" "Ligma balls!"

If you've been online for the past 24 hours, you may have heard of a mysterious illness called "Ligma". The internet is going crazy after an internet personality, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins supposedly died from the new disease.

2018 July 23, Jasmine Girn, “What Is "Ligma" And Why Is Everyone Talking About It”, in Narcity:

Recent reports said that Youtube^([sic]) and Fortnite content creator Fe4rLess died of a medical condition called Ligma.

2020 June 11, Mohit Kumar, “Fortnite: Fe4rless (Fearless) death rumour that he died of Ligma is fake”, in Sportskeeda:

Later on, Heafy did issue an apology towards Machine Gun Kelly following these comments. "I’d like to publicly apologize for my tasteless comments about MGK," he said. "I just found out he's been afflicted by the Ligma variant. It’s really getting real out there. Thoughts and prayers homie."

2021 September 29, Matt Heafy (quoted), Cillian Breathnach, “Trivium's Matt Heafy "formally disses" Machine Gun Kelly for wearing a "16 year old pop punk cosplay identity on a fucking stage"”, in Guitar.com:

Pranksters fooled some media members into thinking they'd been laid off by Elon Musk soon after his Twitter takeover. In reality, they were making reference to a common internet joke involving testicles. […] one of the pranksters had told reporters their name was "Rahul Ligma."

2022 October 28, Tim Marcin, “Pranksters fool some media members after Elon Musk's Twitter takeover”, in Mashable:

(chiefly Internet, humorous) A fictional ostensible disease coined to sound similar to "lick my balls" (used to trick a person into asking the meaning).


clown world

Emerged from The Honkler, a version of Pepe the Frog meme featuring a red clown nose and rainbow wig, characterized as honking a bicycle horn whenever liberals speak. That meme is associated with the use of honk honk ("HH") as a dog whistle for Heil Hitler.

[…] instead of the young boys growing up to be feminine, weak cry babies like they are in the modern ultra-liberal clown world they live in today.

2020 December 10, James Nicholls, How Uk Should Be, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

"Bloody idiots. But remember, this is an age when hurty feelings come above everything else, especially free speech. Sums up our stupid clownworld backward feminut times, eh?"

2020, P. J. Vanston, Somewhere in Europe, unnumbered page:

But he wasn't a chad. If you are not a chad you are literally an unperson in this clown world.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Martin Robinson, You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity, unnumbered page

(slang, derogatory, alt-right) The current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.


Phinabella

I could have been your girlfriend / I could have been your fella / We might have been an item / They would have called us "Phinabella"

2015 February 20, “Act Your Age”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 47:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Phineas Flynn and Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from the animated television series Phineas and Ferb.


karmic debt

en-noun

karmic debt (countable and uncountable, plural karmic debts)

From karmic + debt. First use appears c. 1888.

(New Age, mysticism, metaphysics, spirituality) The accumulation of negative energy resulting from misdeeds in one's past.

metaphysics; spirituality; metaphysics; spirituality


mark of the beast

mark of the beast (plural marks of the beast)

From Middle English, 1350–1400; earliest use in Wycliffe's Bible. Calque of Ancient Greek χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου (kháragma toû thēríou).

calque

χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου

[And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 13:16–18:

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:1–2:

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 19:19–20:

'Tis much disputed who Antichrist is,
I think 'tis the Rump, nor am I in jest,
For indeed, although of the number it miss,
Of this I am sure 'thas the mark of the Beast.

1662, “Saint George for England”, in Rump: or An Exact Collection Of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times, volume II, London: Henry Brome, Henry Marsh, →OCLC, page 126:

Now a man may be said to receive the mark of the beast in his forehead, when as a man doth worship in that form and manner, as is set up by the beast's authority willingly, then doth a man receive the mark in his forehead. And when a man receives the mark of the beast in his right hand, it is when men do worship, and bow down to that form of worship, or image set up by the beast against a man's own mind, or unwillingly, for fear he shall suffer if he do it not. This is to receive the mark of the beast in his right hand. For if the mark of the beast be not seen in the forehead, or in the right hand, they shall either be killed or not suffered to trade ; that is, to buy and sell; one of these he must be sure to suffer if he hath not the mark in either of those two places, aforesaid. That is, if the people do not come to the public worship set up by the beast, either willingly or unwillingly, it was known that they had not received the mark of the beast, neither in the forehead, nor in the right hand.

1662, Lodowicke Muggleton, A True Interpretation of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation of St. John (Religion), published 1753, page 177:

17. That no man might buy or sell—Such edicts have been published long since against the poor Vaudois; but he that had the mark, namely, the name of the first beast, or the number of his name—The name of the beast is that which he bears through his whole duration, viz. that of papa or pope. The number of his name is the whole time during which he bears this name. Whosoever therefore receives the mark of the beast, does as much as if he said expressly, " I acknowledge the present papacy as proceeding from God:" or, " I acknowledge that what St. Gregory VII. has done according to his legend, (authorized from Benedict XIII.,) and what has been maintained in virtue thereof, by his successors to this day, is from God." By the former, a man hath the name of the beast, as a mark; by the latter, the number of his name. In a word, to have the name of the beast is to acknowledge his papal holiness: to have the number of his name is to acknowledge the papal succession. The second beast will enforce the receiving this mark, under the severest penalties.

1755, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, 12th edition (Religion), New York: Carlton & Porter, published 1856, →OCLC, page 705:

Floridalma Galvez, 34, said the calls and WhatsApp messages began weeks before any vaccine was approved, from cousins in Chicago, Florida and her native Guatemala: The vaccine was “the mark of the beast,” they told her, a reference to Satan or the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation.

2021 February 11, Teo Armus, “Among Latino immigrants, false vaccine claims are spreading as fast as the virus”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2021-02-12:

(theology, eschatology) a mark on the person of worshippers of the Antichrist; without the mark one cannot buy or sell.


CSAM

cold spray additive manufacturing
w:cold spray additive manufacturing

Initialism of cold spray additive manufacturing.


Buridan's bridge

(philosophy) A self-referential paradox involving a proposition pronounced about an event that might or might not happen in the future. Socrates wishes to cross a bridge guarded by Plato, who says that if the next proposition Socrates utters is true, Socrates will be permitted to cross, but otherwise he will be thrown into the water. Socrates replies, "You will throw me into the water." Plato is then in a paradoxical situation regarding how to treat Socrates.


modus morons

1. If P, then Q.

2. Q.

3. Therefore P.

(logic) An invalid argument, which has this form:


nihilianism

(theology, Christianity) A doctrine stating that, Christ's essence being divine, his human nature was nothing.


spookological

In an autobiographical essay published in 1997, Money explains “[t]he general tendency is to want to say that gender identity is either biological or not biological — to which my jocular response is that if it’s not biological, then it must be spookological or occult, for there is a biology of learning and remembering, and it does affect the brain, doesn’t it?”

2017 June 30, Michaela Koch, Discursive Intersexions: Daring Bodies Between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123, →ISBN:

(informal) Relating to the study of ghosts.


neo-orthodoxy

(Christianity, theology) A theological movement developed in the aftermath of World War I, largely a reaction against doctrines of 19th-century liberal theology and a reevaluation of the teachings of the Reformation.


Buridan formula

Named in honour of the medieval philosopher Jean Buridan.

(logic) In quantified modal logic, the formula ◇∀xFx→∀x◇Fx, meaning "if possibly everything is F, then everything is possibly F".


Barcan formula

Introduced by the logician Ruth Barcan Marcus.

(logic) In quantified modal logic, the formula ∀x□Fx→□∀xFx, meaning "if every x is necessarily F, then it is necessary that every x is F".


gyani

en-adj

gyani (comparative more gyani, superlative most gyani)

more gyani (comparative)
most gyani (superlative)

Borrowed from Hindi ज्ञानी (jñānī), from Sanskrit ज्ञानी (jñānī). Distantly related to know.

bor

Hindi ज्ञानी (jñānī)

New Delhi: Shortly after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's searing criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Centre's handling of the Covid second wave, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday mocked him as a "gyani baba (wise monk)" who is "dishing out pearls of wisdom" to others while not introspecting why states ruled by his own party fared poorly.

2021 June 22, “"Gyani Baba Dishing Out...": Smriti Irani Slams Rahul Gandhi Over Covid”, in NDTV.com:

Knowing every damn thing that's going on in the world, being super intelligent, being the most gyani baba and being financially broke! What a joke! And most people are like that.

2019 January 1, Ravi Sachan, Sales Ka Sikandar: 3 steps to unstick yourself, New Delhi: Prabhat Prakashan, →ISBN, →ISBN:

According to Swamy, Rahul is not Gyani, i.e knowledgable as he has failed in many exams.

2019 April 2, DNA Web Team, “Rahul Gandhi aka Raul Vinci has four passports, has a chapel at home: Subramanian Swamy”, in DNA India:


fuzzy math

(logic) A form of logic based on the concept of a fuzzy set.


gigachad

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From giga- + Chad (“a very attractive man”). Although isolated uses exist earlier, the term was popularized by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who referred to Russian model Ernest Khalimov as "Gigachad". See Gigachad for more.

I heard Robert just donated $500 to Team Trees. What an absolute gigachad!

I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.

2022 March 27, Olivia Richman, “Doublelift calls Tarik "gigachad" for condemning JasonR's sexist behavior”, in Inven Global, archived from the original on 2024-02-05:

As per his IGN interview, LMSH took 242 tries to beat Malenia on his own. After this, he just decided that no other player has to suffer the same fate he did. What an absolute GigaChad.

2022 April 18, RJ Pierce, “Legendary 'Elden Ring' Player 'Let Me Solo Her' Is Now Immortalized In A Mod”, in Tech Times, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

His meteoric rise from ironic gigachad to actual gigachad is a huge story in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but he just one-upped his own reputation. In an RMR match against Ecstatic, HooXi scored an insane HLTV rating of 2.21.

2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

(by extension, Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.


Finnrey

People have started to look at fandom through a social justice lens, so there are now progressive/good ships (Finnrey = interracial, good) and regressive/bad ships (Reylo = white, racist, abusive and sexist = bad).

2020, Shuang, quoted in Adrienne E. Raw, "Fandom Discussion: Knowledge, Intersections, and Tensions of Self, Community, and Social Justice", dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan, page 280

FinnRey fan art

2020, Abigail Reed, "Interpretations and Receptions of Alternative Subjectivities in the Disney-Produced Star Wars Films", dissertation submitted to Florida State University, page vi

I've been following "Finnrey" a lot, which is a dark horse in the realm of shipping. Even people who don't love Finnrey recognize that the first movie did set up that Finn (played by black actor John Boyega) and Rey (white actor Daisy Ridley) had a deep emotional connection that producers later dropped.

2021, Greg Carter, quoted in "UWM historian takes on race, relationships, and representation", In Focus (University of Wisconsin-Millwaukee), January 2021, page 11

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn and Rey from Star Wars.


Catradora

I'm firmly on team Catradora, I mean, are they blind to each other or something?

2019, Erik Schubach, The Pike: New Beginnings, unnumbered page:

From Charlize Theron kicking *ss in The Old Guard to the final season of She Ra and The Princess^([sic]) of Power finally giving us Catradora.

2020 August, Jamal Grootboom, “Cursed”, in TV Magazine, South Africa, page 19:

While many comparisons have now been made between “Korrasami” and “Catradora,” in light of the critical success of She-Ra's final season and its open depiction of Catra and Adora's love, […]

2021, Lauren Chochinov, “'What's Going On with You Two?': Queerness, Fandom, and Adaptation in The Legend of Korra Franchise”, in Reginald Wiebe, editor, Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics, page 131:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Catra and Adora (She-Ra) from the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.


green door

While this cannot be done in all cases, no commander should accept the notion that whole blocks of intelligence are permanently behind a special “green door” until his intelligence officer has carefully examined the regulations.

1976, Michael T. Chase, “All-Source Intelligence”, in Military Review: Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, volume LVI, number 7, page 45:

The so-called “green door”, behind which intelligence is alleged to hoard its secrets has always been, and forever will be, a problem. […] Arranging for dissemination of a specific, known product is relatively easy—it’s the products you don’t know about that the green door hides.

1995, Douglas H. Dearth, R. Thomas Goodden, Strategic Intelligence: Theory and Application, second edition, page 66-67:

The NSA is the opposite of the NGA in that the controlled serendipity of its collection-management processes is hidden not only from those beyond the “green door” but from many intelligence community insiders as well.

2005, editors Burton Gerber, Jennifer E. Sims, Transforming U.S. Intelligence, page 151:

This information on how the enemy conducted fighter operations came to the Aggressors from many sources behind the “green door” of the US intelligence gathering and interpreting community.

2012, Gaillard R. Peck, Jr, America’s Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG:

(espionage) The barrier between compartmentalized intelligence information and those without access to it, especially military personnel who may need it.


playersexuality

Multiple posters from the collected content acknowledged that many of the explicitly queer opportunities in the games are actually cases of “playersexuality” (Cole, 2016).

2019, Sam Stockton, "Dating Ga(y)mes: Queer Performance in Farming Simulation Roleplay Games", thesis submitted to the University of Calgary, page 47

It can be argued that explicit representations of bisexuality, pansexuality, and other multiple-gender-attracted people are erased from games that use 'playersexuality' as a mechanic.

2020, Alayna Cole, Dakoda Barker, Games as Texts: A Practical Application of Textual Analysis to Games, unnumbered page:

In some ways, playersexuality simplifies romance for both players and developers; […]

2020, Alexandra M. Lucas, “Innovative Origins, Playersexuality, & Complex Inquisition: The Evolution of Relationship Mechanics in Dragon Age”, in Lindsay D. Grace, editor, Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer, page 183:

(video games) The state of an NPC being attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.


nature lover

But though you may be certain that your religion or political party or sport is the best, you will usually admit that there are many people who do not agree with you and that they are entitled to their opinion. This is not true in the case of the nature lover. To the militant nature lover (and every nature lover I ever met was militant in his love of nature) one is either a nature lover or one is unenlightened; there is no other alternative.

1944, Leonard Dubkin, “Enter Pauline”, in The Murmur of Wings, Whittlesey House, →OCLC, page 139:

In spite of the eminently successful fiction that she wrote, if Gene Stratton Porter is to occupy any permanent place in the history of American letters, that place will no doubt be established by her work as a nature lover and a nature writer and photographer.

1980, Bertrand F. Richards, “Preface”, in Gene Stratton Porter, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:

"In nature, lightning strikes occasionally cause small, localized fires that burn away the underbrush. The policy has been to put out those fires. So now there's plenty of underbrush, which is the perfect fuel for massive destruction. Hundreds and thousands of acres have been destroyed, lives lost, because we didn’t trust nature to do its job."
Actually, the policy began with nature lover Teddy Roosevelt.

2015, Lisa Lutz, “2000 Old Forge, New York”, in How to Start a Fire (Fiction), Mariner Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 74:

This house in McLean, Va., has just about everything a nature lover desires: soothing sounds of the Potomac River, a sylvan setting with countless species of birds and other wildlife, access to hiking, fishing and canoeing — and all within a half-hour of downtown Washington and minutes from the Beltway and George Washington Parkway.

2021 November 12, Kathy Orton, “Nature lovers house in McLean, Va., for sale for $7 million”, in Washington Post:

A person who has an intense interest in the natural world, especially one who frequents natural places for enjoyment and recreation.


talk to

en-verb

talk to (third-person singular simple present talks to, present participle talking to, simple past and past participle talked to)

talks to (present singular third-person)
talking to (participle present)
talked to (participle past)
talked to (past)

“Do you have a boyfriend?” — “No, but there’s a guy I’m talking to.”

(idiomatic) To show the beginnings of a romantic interest in; to flirt with over a period of time in hopes of developing a romantic relationship.


sir, this is a Wendy's

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One of the comments:
 "I got the whole alphabet right, even the hard part where you have to say LMNOP! The doctors were really impressed!"
 "Sir, this is a Wendy's"

2020 July 24, jthr...@gmail.com, “Re: LOL!”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet):

Sir, this is a Wendy's. (Full disclosure: this isn't a Wendy's. This is a sex-advice column, JACKS, and sex-advice columnists are not matchmakers. So you'll have to find and/or hire a phone-sex provider on your own.)

2022, Dan Savage, "When an asexual says 'no', she means no", The Georgia Straight, 17 February 2022 - 24 February 2022, page 17

“You must be in so much pain to keep posting bikini pictures at your age,” a follower commented on longtime supermodel Paulina Porizkova’s Instagram this week. “I pray you can come to terms with your mortality.”
This comment has big “Sir, this is a Wendy’s” energy, or at least, “Sir, if seeing a woman’s exposed flesh compels you to bring up her death, the internet might not be the healthiest place for you right now” vibes. But Porizkova, who is 57 and known for having a good sense of humor, responded with another bikini pic, adding, “As you can see, I’m suffering indeed.”

2022 May 2, Jenny Singer, “Women Are Calling Themselves ‘Old and Ugly’ on Twitter—And It’s Actually Super Heartwarming”, in Glamour:

sir, this is an Arby's
sir, this is an Arby's#English

(Internet slang) Alternative form of sir, this is an Arby's.


sir, this is an Arby's

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From a humorous Internet meme that envisions a character giving a strange, rambling monologue, with the punchline being a fast-food employee reminding them that they are in a restaurant. This format of joke is first attested in a November 2011 tweet by American screenwriter Ethan Hunter (@ethanhunter).

Setting aside the fact that Trump inviting a group of lawmakers to the White House to discuss trade policy only to launch into an out-of-nowhere rant about one of his enemies being fat is the definition of the phrase “ma’am, this is an Arby’s,” Trump’s hatred for Nadler goes way back.

2019 April 9, Bess Levin, “Trump's Radical Anti-Impeachment: Fat Jokes”, in Vanity Fair:

When you’re doing your job as a journalistic commentator in its highest form, you’re drawing new parallels, expanding the Overton Window, opening people’s minds and also ensuring them they aren’t alone in their frustrations with the status quo. When done at its most hacky, however, you’re ranting at people, making leaps and assumptions that gloss over reality, casting yourself as omniscient genius, and generally just pulling real “Sir, this is an Arby’s” shit.

2021 October 13, Blair Stenvick, “If I Ever Run for Governor, Please Don't Vote for Me”, in Portland Mercury:

I wonder if you’re familiar with the “Sir, this is an Arby’s” meme. Let me illustrate it for you:
Person A [with aggressive aggravation]: Can you believe it? The other day, I heard someone refer to the book of Genesis. Surely you KNOW that Genesis is not just “a book,” but the first part of the Pentateuch, and the Pentateuch is a five-fold book, not five books. Do you know what the first word is in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy? It’s and. BOOM. What did Jesus call the Torah? “The book of Moses.” Not the books of Moses.
Person B [laconically]: Sir, this is an Arby's.

2020 September, Alex Duke, “'Sir, This Is a Local Church'— Or, How an Absurdist Meme about a Roast Beef Shop Might Help Heal Our Church”, in 9Marks Journal, page 142:

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that one finds a statement to be bizarre, tangential, or inappropriate for the context in which it is made.


can I speak to the manager haircut

en-noun

can I speak to the manager haircut (plural can I speak to the manager haircuts)

can I speak to the manager haircuts (plural)

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From a 2014 meme pairing a photo of a white woman with an asymmetrical blond bob with the text "The 'Can I Speak To A Manager' Haircut".

But after a banshee of a woman with a 'can I speak to your manager' haircut howled at us (apparently this was "singing", though we're still yet to confirm it) for an hour we decided it was best to seek the comforts of the motel, its panoramic views of the roundabout and reruns of Midsomer Murders.

2016, Lachlan Sharp, "Lake Placid", The Reef (Beaumaris Yacht Club), Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer/Autumn 2016, page 16

In the first ten seconds of an educational video, Pam, with her double-denim and 'can I speak to the manager' haircut, says ominously: […]

2017, Erin Christie, "Nobody Told Me", Grapeshot (Macquarrie University), Volume 9, Issue 7 (2017), page 29

A middle-aged boomer with a can-I-speak-to-the-manager haircut who has lots of opinions about lots of things but none of them feel all that well thought out.

2020, Portia MacIntosh, Stuck On You, unnumbered page:

(slang, derogatory) A hairstyle associated with entitled middle-aged white women, typically a layered, asymmetrical bob with blond highlights.


Karen haircut

From the use of Karen, beginning in the late 2010s, as a pejorative for an entitled middle-aged white woman. The association of a specific hairstyle with this type of woman began with a 2014 meme pairing a photo of a white woman with an asymmetrical blond bob with the text "The 'Can I Speak To A Manager' Haircut".

There was no misinformation from middle-aged women on Facebook with Karen haircuts.

2020 April 27, Vic Bell, “A Nation In Paralysis”, in Salient, Victoria University of Wellington, page 14:

A woman with a Karen haircut pointed at a hall in the back […]

2020, A. W. Hartoin, Bottle Blonde (published 15 September 15 2020), unnumbered page

The blonde with the Karen haircut had terrible acne, which she concealed with makeup.

2020, Matthew Archbold, American Antigone (published 16 September 2020), page 117


ontology alignment

(philosophy, information science) The process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies.


groyper

/ˈɡɹɔɪ.pə(ɹ)/

Unknown. First attested in c. 2015 on 4chan, almost always accompanied with a distinct Pepe the Frog illustration, predating associations with Nick Fuentes.

(Internet slang) A large, green, cartoon toad with a strange mischievous expression, similar to Pepe the Frog.


Hume's fork

Named after philosopher David Hume (1711–1776).

named-after

Hume's Fork would belong to the category of sophistry and illusion. As Hume's Fork is presented as a tool with which knowable propositions can be distinguished from nonsensical ones, critics need to show that the two categories of knowable propositions are inadequate, or that nonsensical propositions can be true or false.

2020, Jean-Etienne Joullié, Robert Spillane, The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 105:

(epistemology) A tenet asserting that all statements are exclusively either "analytic a priori" (universally true by mere definition) or "synthetic a posteriori" (unknowable without exact experience).


memeworthy

en-adj

memeworthy (comparative more memeworthy, superlative most memeworthy)

more memeworthy (comparative)
most memeworthy (superlative)

Clips from 1980s cartoons are usually pretty memeworthy.

Facebook's filters are also designed to notice the already popular, frequently clicked items while disregarding other, less memeworthy ones.

2013, Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

... but they are far from memeworthy. One question that social media can help us ask our students is: what can poetry (and literature more generally) do in ...

2015, Frederick Luis Aldama, Latino/a Literature in the Classroom: Twenty-first-century approaches to teaching, Routledge, →ISBN:

That was kind of memeworthy. I'm impressed.” “Your mum and I were over at Joe's the other night. Twenty years he's been there, Michael.

2017, Randa Abdel-Fattah, The Lines We Cross, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

... opened up under the rear wheels of a bus during morning rush hour, producing memeworthy images that have given the city an image it would like to shake.

2021, Justin Starr, Water and Wastewater Pipeline Assessment Technologies: Classification Systems, Sensors, and Results Interpretation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 19:

(Internet slang) Deserving of Internet memes.


hanahaki

From Japanese 花吐き病 (hanahaki), from 花 (hana, “flower”) + 吐く (haku, “to vomit”). An invention of Matsuda Naoko (松田奈緒子) for her manga Hanahaki Otome (『花吐き乙女』).

The cascading emotions are
giving me hanahaki tonight, they're
beautiful but it's suffocating.

2019, Unzila Iftikhar, Before Your Eyes - Despite It All, You Still Rise, page 9:

It is familiar. In that most everyone is familiar with a coffee shop and thus understands the AU’s basic premise on sight. Unlike, say, Hanahaki fics.

2020, Katharine Elizabeth McCain, "Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe", dissertation submitted to Ohio State University, page 27

However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease.

2020, Ivy Wong, "The Cure for Hanahaki", English Literary Magazine (St. Paul's Co-Educational College, Hong Kong), page 22

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.


phaneron

Coined by Charles Sanders Peirce in 1905 based on Ancient Greek φανερόν n (phanerón, “that which is visible”), substantivized from the adjective φανερός (phanerós, “visible, apparent, manifest”).

bor

This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Pierce that he drew a line between reality — the way the universe truly is — and what he called "the phaneron" — the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get.

2013, Vsauce, "Is Anything Real?", 7:39–7:54

(philosophy) That which is perceived by the mind, regardless of whether it corresponds to reality.


polyam

en-adj

polyam (comparative more polyam, superlative most polyam)

more polyam (comparative)
most polyam (superlative)

If someone discloses a polyam identity or relationship, the Three and Four are strong indicators that it's a good time to welcome in new partners or take the next steps forward.

2019, Cassandra Snow, Queering the Tarot, page 77:

But even with that being the case, I've never had a polyam bud presume a sexual interest on my part.

2021, Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life, unnumbered page:

Many people have mixed feelings or reluctance about being in a polyam relationship, but if they were clear that they did not want to be in this relationship, they would have broken up rather than come to couples therapy.

2021, Martha Kauppi, Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients), page 250:


mutual aid

From mutual + aid. Popularised by the anarcho-communist philosopher, Peter Kropotkin.

(anarchism, communism, philosophy, by extension) A voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit.


en-proverb

that which has been seen cannot be unseen

what has been seen cannot be unseen#English

Alternative form of what has been seen cannot be unseen


Used since the 1990s. From the number of letters in each word of the phrase; I is 1 letter, love is 4 letters, and you is 3 letters respectively.


historical-grammatical

(theology) Alternative form of historico-grammatical


abnormalist

On the other hand, there is the worldview represented by the abnormalists, who insist that the cosmos is in an aberrant state because a fundamental disturbance has taken place in the past which can only be remedied by a regenerating power that can restore it to its original goals (theism).

2002, David K. Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept, page 21:

Abnormalists, in contrast, view the world as fundamentally broken, skewed or distorted. Christians believe that we live in an abnormal state—biologically, socially, psychologically, volitionally, emotionally—[…]

2009, Mark R. McMinn, Clark D. Campbell, Integrative Psychotherapy, page 289:

(Christianity, theology) One who believes that the cosmos is in an abnormal state that can only be set right by divine influence.


toonophilia

Yes, that particular four-parter has a special place in my heart... it was the main root from which my toonophilia, and later my furriness, grew. (Well, more likely the root was already there, and it was the fertilizer.)

1996 March 21, Lenester the Badger, “Re: POLL: Best Cartoon w/ furries?”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

Toonophilia isn't furry fandom, but it can bring people to it, because it's similar to begin with.

1999 October 30, Muke Tever, “Re: galen's plushie site becomes today's "Cruel Site of the Day"”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

I'm not an Otakusexual — although I respect toonophilia as a sexually responsible choice.

2015, Blythe Woolston, MARTians, unnumbered page:

Sexual and/or romantic attraction to cartoon or anime characters.


MerDer

With Izzie Stevens' treatment going on and MerDer's wedding looming, there's going to be lots of drama at Seattle Grace in the last few episodes of the fifth season.

2009 April 16, CeCe Brooks, “Summer TV GUide”, in Old Black & Gold, Wake Forest University, page B5:

With the MerDer drama heating up and Meredith's job on the line, the two-hour season premiere is looking at keeping viewers glued to the screen from beginning to end.

2011 August 31, Ashley Hite, “Fall returning television series provide relief, relaxation from studies”, in The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University, page 9:

But then they had to go and create a montage of MerDer's relationship and it suddenly got very real.

2015 May 7, Danielle S. Tepper, “Derek Deserved Better”, in Town & Country Gazette, page 40:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd from the television series Grey's Anatomy.


Kadena

Even so, the show succeeds in establishing the Kadena connection with heartfelt love and deep respect.

2017, Melissa Lee, “The Bold Type Big Buzz”, in F-Yeah, volume 1, page 5:

During the first two seasons while the Kadena relationship develops onscreen, the pair dominated fanfiction writing.

2020, Jessica Doble, "Reading Fandom: Fandom as Reception and Creative Authority", dissertation submitted to the University of Lousiana at Lafayette, page 231

While the show has had issues when it comes to diversity […], Kadena never fails to make our gay hearts happy.

2021 July, Roxy Bourdillon, “Get The Look: The Bold Type”, in Diva, page 22:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kat Edison and Adena El-Amin from the television series The Bold Type.


Vauseman

Note: If you don't ship 'Vauseman' by the end of the season, then I'm judging you.

2014, Jenna Benson, in "Reviews", Blitz Mag (University of New South Wales), Session 2, Week 3 + 4 (2014), page 34

However, Clexa (Clarke Griffin and Lexa) from The 100 (2014-), Vauseman (Alex Vause and Piper Chapman) from Orange is the New Black (2013-) and Karmy (Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld) in Faking It (2014-2016) are further examples.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 6

I will delve into the ways Vauseman both upholds and subverts the expectations of a couple involved in a traditional marriage plot.

2019, Alexis Constantine, "'I wanna be your prison wife': Nice Blonde Ladies, Broken Rules, and Subversive Marriage Plots in Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black", thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University, page 13

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Alex Vause and Piper Chapman from the television series Orange Is the New Black.


Paily

Commenters are generally supportive of the possibility of a Paige and Emily coupling, either expressing surprise or that they had been expecting this, with one commenter even expressing her love for “Paily” (Emily and Paige’s relationship name) (ABC Family, 2011).

2013, Caitlin Campisi, "Homonationalism on TV?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Queer and Trans* Youth Representations on Mainstream Teen Television Shows", thesis submitted the University of Ottawa, page 98

They can explore female queerness by reblogging posts about ‘Paily’.

2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to Texas A&M University, page 74

Strategies which fanfiction authors use to create fanfiction, such as closely analysing homoerotic moments in the source text, are investigated through analysing similar trends investigated in section one and by employing the same method outlined above but are applied to Paily fics instead of the slash texts explored in section one.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 100

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Paige McCullers and Emily Fields from the television series Pretty Little Liars.


Karmy

Fans rooting for "Karmy" – the official couple name for the two of them – may still have hope.

2014, Sophia Kaufman, "'Faking It' midseason finale forgoes subtlety", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 3 December 2014, page 5A

But despite the show’s depiction of Karma as presumably straight, fans latched onto the “Karmy” pairing.

2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “From Strategic Retweets to Group Hangs: Writers’ Room Twitter Accounts and the Productive Ecology of TV Social Media Fans”, in Television & New Media, volume 19, number 5:

Fans were especially disappointed when Covington revealed to the Hollywood Reporter, “It was always my intention to make ‘Karmy’ happen during our final season. Karma would finally realize that her possessiveness of Amy might be a sign of deeper feelings for her best friend.”

2019, Carter Covington, quoted in Francesca Petronio, "Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities", thesis to The City University of New York, page 42

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld from the American television series Faking It.


Naomily

In the case of Naomily however, the relationship is endorsed within the official text by the end of Series 3, and by Series 4 they are unambiguously presented and recognized as a couple.

2012 February, Deborah F. Hunn, “'The dark side of Naomily': Skins, fan texts and contested genres”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 26, number 1, page 93:

There was no difference between the handling of Naomily and that of other couples on the show because it was a story about falling in love—the fact that the lovers happened to be a pair of schoolgirls was incidental.

2020, Ann-Marie Cook, “Just a Queer Little Love Story: Skins and the Naomily Phenomenon”, in Stefano Ramello, editor, Fascination of Queer, page 173:

The details of their romance are lovingly expanded upon, developing the Naomily narrative in multiple ways.

2020, Kate McNicholas Smith, Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Naomi Campbell and Emily Fitch from the British television series Skins.


GQP

Blend of GOP + QAnon.
The GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", the Republican Party of the United States of America, a conservative political party. The usage of "Q" refers to Republican politicians either supporting the QAnon conspiracy theories, or becoming closer to extremism and fascism, represented by the more militant members of the QAnon groups.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) The Republican Party, especially politicians and members who align themselves with militant extremism.


Qaren

Blend of QAnon + Karen. It was first used in a viral video on Twitter posted on 2020, mocking a woman who got angry at a doctor for not administering hydroxychloroquine to treat a COVID-19 infection.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.


soulical

This is done, by representing phenomena which are in reality merely soulical, as having a spiritual origin.

1867, David Thom, Soul and Spirit, page 291:

Of or relating to a person's soul, sometimes (theology) as opposed to the divine spirit.


Kataang

Are you a supporter of Katara and Aang’s relationship? Then you’re a member of the Kataang club.

2006, "United Nations: The Fans of Avatar", Nick Mag Presents, Winter 2006, page 40

I still prefer Kataang, because I can't imagine Aang and Katara ever drifting apart when Katara is the one person he could not let go and Katara's life truly began because she met him and he is basically the light and joy in her life.

2014, "paulina101", quoted in Rincke de Bont, "The Appreciation of Storybending: An Exploration of Reviewing Practices in Online Avatar Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, pages 98-99

Konietzko, for his part, suggests a great awareness: “There were plenty of Makorra shippers out there, so if we had gone back on our decision and gotten those characters back together, would that have meant we caved in to those fans instead?....Trust me, I remember Kataang vs. Zutara.”

2017, Jake Pitre, "Rated Q for Queer: The Legend of Korra and the Evolution of Queer Reading", Reader Feather Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2017, pages 29-30

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katara and Aang from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Aang
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)


memecoin

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-memecoin.wav

(cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency or token that is based on a meme or has a comedic trait.


Herbrand's theorem

(logic) A fundamental result of mathematical logic, essentially allowing a certain kind of reduction of first-order logic to propositional logic.


Davis-Putnam algorithm

Developed by Martin Davis and Hilary Putnam.

(logic) An algorithm for checking the validity of a first-order logic formula using a resolution-based decision procedure for propositional logic.


coulrophilia

If you're charmed by incompetence, that's just another kind of coulrophilia.

2010, Monica Drake, Clown Girl: A Novel, page 239:

This volume of stories covers auto flagellation (self spanking), serviphilia (sexual servitude), agalmatophilia (mannequin sex), microphilia (attraction to small people), knismolagnia (sexual tickling), coulrophilia (clowns), gerontophilia, […]

2013, Nika Bella Dea, Bizarre Femdom Fetishes:

The blog recognizes its controversiality by informing about teratophilia, the ability to see beauty in the unusual and a sexual preference for individuals having unusual appearance, and its subgenre coulrophilia, sexual attraction to clowns

2018, Menina Wik, Romance Gone Mortal–Taboo of Shipping Fictional Movie Monsters:

The ascending of Jocund Jupiter may give you a case of coulrophilia, but this variety will draw clowns to YOU.

2020, Evan Nichols, The Ask Dr. Eldritch ETERNAL HOROSCOPE OF MYSTERY!, page 77:

A paraphilia consisting of sexual attraction to clowns, jesters and mimes.


shipperdom

If there has never been a psychological examination of shipperdom, then there should be one.

2008, Jon Lachonis, Amy J. Johnston, Lost Ate My Life: The Inside Story of a Fandom Like No Other:


win someone's heart

en-verb

win someone's heart (third-person singular simple present wins someone's heart, present participle winning someone's heart, simple past and past participle won someone's heart)

wins someone's heart (present singular third-person)
winning someone's heart (participle present)
won someone's heart (participle past)
won someone's heart (past)

Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

Nay, he hath won my heart, and with it goes my hand, and throne, and all I have—[…]

1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVIII, in Allan Quatermain:

She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.

1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business:

To gain the love or affection of someone.


permissivism

(epistemology) The belief that there are situations where the evidence for a proposition justifies either believing or doubting that proposition.


Qult

(derogatory) The cultlike following of the QAnon movement.


Qultist

Blend of Q (“QAnon”) + cultist, equivalent to Qult + -ist.

(derogatory) A cultlike follower of the QAnon movement.


virtue ethicist

en-noun

virtue ethicist (plural virtue ethicists)

(ethics) A philosopher or other thinker who advocates or employs virtue ethics.


en-proverb

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Outlandish and unbelievable claims must be followed by exceptional evidence to be considered acceptable in rational discourse.


Atheism Plus

Coined by blogger Jey McCreight in 2012.

(historical) A short-lived movement, active in the 2010s, that aimed to encourage atheists to address social justice issues in addition to religious ones during their activism.


ECREE

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence#English

Initialism of extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


Sagan standard

The standard that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


apotelesma

It is further to be observed, that although both the Natures in Christ remaine distinct […] both Natures doe that which is proper vnto them, but with Communion of each with other. This Communion is the concurrence of both Natures in the same Person by their severall proper actions, to the producing of one Apotelesma or outward effect pertaining to our Salvation.

1633, John Downe, Certaine treatises of the late reverend and learned divine, Mr Iohn Downe, page 60:

Satisfaction is […] looked on as a real act or operation of one or the other nature in Christ, when it is the apotelesma or effect of the actings, the doing and suffering of Christ – the dignity of what he did in reference unto the end for which he did it. For the two natures are so united in Christ as not to have a third compound principle of physical acts and operations thence arising; but each nature acts distinctly according to its own being and properties, yet so as what is the immediate act of either nature is the act of him who is one in both; from whence it has its dignity.

1669, John Owen, “On the Satisfaction of Christ”, in A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity:

[25][…]Holl. (728) further enumerates the apotelesmata of Christ, as of a twofold order. The divine nature of the λόγος cannot affect some things except by a union with flesh[…]; other things, from his free good pleasure or purpose, he does not will to effect without flesh (for example, miracles).

1876, Heinrich Schmid, translated by Charles A. Hay and Henry E. Jacobs, The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, page 360:

Leontius of Byzantium calls the result of this retrospective reconstruction – from the trinitarian Son through the creation of human physis to the enhypostasis – an apotelesma. That is an important shift compared to Chalcedon: the apotelesma, the result of the whole process, is not the hypostasis as such, because the hypostasis – as the hypostasis of the second person of the Trinity – is the hegemonikon principle from the very beginning. The apotelesma, the final point, is the retrospectively reconstructed enhypostatical union of the person of Jesus Christ.

2021, Mohr Siebeck, The Perspective of Resurrection: A Trinitarian Christology, page 106:

(theology) The end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.


monsterfucker

(slang, vulgar) A person who is sexually attracted to monsters, cryptids, etc; someone with teratophilia


love is love

(21st century) Love in LGBTQ relationships is equivalent (e.g. in genuineness, validity, personal experience, etc.) to love in heterosexual relationships.


propositionalism

(theology) The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.


transsensual

en-adj

transsensual (comparative more transsensual, superlative most transsensual)

more transsensual (comparative)
most transsensual (superlative)

Probably a blend of transsexual + sensual, transgender + sensual, or similar.

TV/TS/SO - Carolina Transsensual Alliance: […] Open to all regardless of sexual orientation. No gay men unless CD. […] SOs welcome.

[1993 Winter, “Directory of Organizations & Services”, in Vivian D. Allen, editor, TV-TS Tapestry Journal, volume 66, →ISSN, page 89:

Jack was able to come to a sense of peace within himself as he and Dawn worked out an intimate and domestic life together. For others, the awareness of transsensual attraction comes long after the partnership is formed.

2004, Arlene Istar Lev, Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families, published 2007, →ISBN, page 310:

The dealer Rasmussen, who has previously rejected Gerda [Wegener]’s work, says of the paintings inspired by Lili [Elbe]: ‘These are different, I don’t know, there may be a market’.²⁷
²⁷ From his tone it may be a transsensual niche market that Rasmussen has in mind.

2016, Nicholas Chare, “Landscape into Portrait: Reflections on Lili Elbe and Trans* Aesthetics”, in Parallax, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 351, 362:

(rare) Related to (sexual) attraction to trans people.


epistemic rationality

(philosophy) A specific form of rationality focusing on coming to accurate beliefs about the world based on available evidence.


hypothetical imperative

en-noun

hypothetical imperative (plural hypothetical imperatives)

From German hypothetischer Imperativ, used by Immanuel Kant.

(philosophy) A formula that tells one how to act in order to achieve a specific goal, without reflecting on the value of the goal itself. Such an imperative is conditional, i.e., it would only motivate one who already shares the end goal in question.


From a phrase read from a ship's bell by a character in the 1996 movie White Squall. The phrase itself means "Where one of us goes, we will go together," or "We will go together with any one of our members."

But this particular image, posted in March by the Utah-based fashion, beauty, and parenting influencer Jalynn Schroeder to more than 50,000 followers, is accompanied by a series of hashtags that includes the initialism WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a motto used by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

2020 August 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful”, in The Atlantic:

Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy. The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.

“Where we go one, we go all,” erupted the crowd in a QAnon chant that’s frequently abbreviated to WWG1WGA in online messaging boards like 4chan, where the cult began.

2024 January 23, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “A Creepy QAnon Chant Rises at Trump’s Rally—and He Nods and Smiles”, in The New Republic:

(US politics) Initialism of where we go one, we go all: a popular slogan of QAnon believers.


antifrustrationism

From anti- + frustration + -ism, coined by German analytic philosopher Christoph Fehige in 1998.

coinage

(philosophy) The axiological view that frustrated preferences create a negative moral 'debit' which can be canceled out through their satisfaction. Thus, satisfying a desire that already exists is good, but creating a new satisfied desire is not.


normative statement

en-noun

normative statement (plural normative statements)

(philosophy) A statement expressing a value judgment answering the question of what ought to be, as opposed to what there is.


positive statement

positive statement (plural positive statements)

(philosophy, social sciences) A statement concerning what is, was, or will be, based on empirical evidence.


Romancelandia

From romance + -land + -ia. Popularized within the romance literature community beginning in the late 2000s to early 2010s. First attested in print in 2009.

Paranormals had been on the fringes of Romancelandia almost since its inception but became huge business in the early 2000s.

2009, Sarah Wendell, Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels, page 125:

I became a native of Romancelandia, writing “from the heart” (as the disgruntled woman at my talk said), from my dual but not dueling hearts, simultaneously crafting academic and fiction writing about falling in love.

2016, Catherine M. Roach, Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture, page 43:

RT was created and run by RT Book Reviews magazine, formerly known as Romantic Times, which was for many years the paper of record in Romancelandia.

2020, Avi Steinberg, The Happily Ever After: A Memoir of an Unlikely Romance Novelist, unnumbered page:

The sphere or community of romance writers, readers, and novels.

In other words, fictionalized Arabiastan in desert romancelandia bears some resemblance both to contemporary Saudi Arabia and to a historical notion of the Arabian Peninsula.

2015, Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror, unnumbered page:

In real life, I hope these kind of IVF mistakes don't happen, but in Romancelandia, when it happens, there's always a sexy, single billionaire involved!

2016, Andrea Laurence, The CEO's Unexpected Child, page 2:

In Romancelandia, it was easy to miraculously find a couple of stray dogs for Adam and crew to train as service dogs, but in real life, it takes a lot of hard work, money, and time to find the right dog to do the amazing things a service animal can do.

2019, Teri Anne Stanley, Big Chance Cowboy, unnumbered page:

The idealized fictional setting of romance novels.


bodice-rippery

She says that her first novel was born out of a profound love of medieval history, but I fear that what she really loves is historical romance, fantasy, and bodice-rippery.

1990 May, Peter T. Garratt, “Ys OK”, in Interzone, page 66:

A tale of skulduggery, bodice rippery, and shoot-’em-up action unfolds, complete with help from a luscious mistress of disguise who could have stepped right out of a James Bond novel.

2016, The Chemist review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 November 2016, page 188

While the genre has generally distanced itself from bodice-rippery, romance authors do continue to play with the look or feel or meaning of non-consensual sex and what’s sometimes called “dubious consent” or “dub-con” sex.

2020, Hannah McCann, Catherine M. Roach, “Sex and sexuality”, in Jayashree Kamblé, Eric Murphy Selinger, Hsu-Ming Teo, editors, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction, page 422:

(informal) The archetypical content of bodice rippers; violent or aggressive sex in romance fiction.


cisgay

en-adj

cisgay (comparative more cisgay, superlative most cisgay)

more cisgay (comparative)
most cisgay (superlative)

Unfortunately, the film also falls into the trap of connecting a non-passing body with unavoidable consequences of violence in a scene in which [trans man] Lukas has to escape a rape attempt by one of his cis-gay colleagues.

2014, Wibke Straube, Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes: A Transfeminist Reading of Utiopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film, page 127:

A nation is considered progressive insofar as its gay population has access to same-sex marriage, can serve in the military, and can adopt children – mainly the experience of white cisgay men in the United States (Puar, 2013, 337).

2017, Ralph Haddad, "Queering the Occupation: Settler-Colonial Sexualities in the Era of Homonationalism", Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 2017, pages 111-112

Thus, when I refer to phallocentrism in cisgay porn, I am being quite literal.

2017, Jian Neo Chen, “Trans Riot: Transmasculine of Colour Expressions and Embodiments in the Films of Christopher Lee”, in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, volume 4, number 3, page 305:


paranormal romance

A subgenre of romance literature and speculative fiction involving paranormal elements, such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, or time travel.


cishetero

cishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)

more cishetero (comparative)
most cishetero (superlative)

There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.

2019, “Alyia”, in Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney, editors, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum, page 119:

This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.

2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma, page 112:

[…] while men can and should worship the cishetero fantasy of Playboy in which what it means to be a Man is to be effortlessly orgasmic and heterosexually dominating.

2021, Emily Anne Parker, Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body, page 64:


cisheterosexual

cisheterosexual (comparative more cisheterosexual, superlative most cisheterosexual)

more cisheterosexual (comparative)
most cisheterosexual (superlative)

A jock might be queer, but his performance of masculinity fits so comfortably within the cisheterosexual norms that he is assumed to be straight.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 162:

This is sadly common; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth experience trauma at higher rates than their cisheterosexual peers.

2020, Charlie McNabb, Queer Adolescence: Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth, page 43:

In such an India, two things are of utmost priority: land and an heir (preferably a cisheterosexual, masculine male) to inherit it.

2020, Arunima Ray, “Thinking The Body, Figuring (The) Woman: Religion, caste, gender, and identity in literary representations”, in Goutam Karmakar, Nasima Islam, Sk Sagir Ali, editors, Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism, unnumbered page:


Bocardo

(logic, obsolete) Alternative form of Bokardo


Baroco

(logic, obsolete) Alternative form of Baroko


Security Service

In this section […] “intelligence service” means the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service or GCHQ […]

2010, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Other provisions about offences, section 13(6)”, in Bribery Act 2010, page 11:


Secret Intelligence Service

the Secret Intelligence Service (canonical)


Scorbus

Because of this, some commentators are suspicious that the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it.

2016 August 16, Ilana Masad, “Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance”, in The Guardian:

For Harry Potter fandom, the idea of a romantic relationship (or ship) between Albus/Scorpius or "Scorbus," the ship's portmanteau, is nothing new.

2018, Emily E. Roach, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child”, in Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, editors, Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse, page 133:

For years, Scorbus fans had almost no canonical information with which to base their fan works, therefore fics varied wildly in characterisation.

2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 98

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter of the Harry Potter franchise.


SOGI

In addition, persecution from within the refugee community can make it imperative that LGBTQI Syrians hide their SOGI, which may limit their access to protection.

2018, Alex Odlum, “To Stay or to Go?: Decision-Making of LGBTQI Syrians in Mixed Migration Flows”, in Arzu Güler, Denise Venturi, Maryna Shevtsova, editors, LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration, page 84:

There are diverse terminologies in use because individuals think about and experience their SOGI in various and diverse ways.

2019, Patrick Tomczyk, “Queer bodies and queer practices: The implications of queer theory for dramatherapy”, in Susan Hogan, editor, Arts Therapies and Gender Issues: International Perspectives on Research, page 111:

Asking patients their SOGI will enable you to provide relevant, specific, and compassionate care that is patient centered and grounded in appropriate language.

2020, Lynn S. Bickley, Bates' Guide To Physical Examination and History Taking, unnumbered page:

sexual orientation
sexual orientation#English

Initialism of sexual orientation and gender identity.


factial

(philosophy) Of or relating to factiality.


causingness

The term Causation, as the author observes, signifies causingness and causedness taken together, but I do not see on what ground he asserts that it connotes present time.

1829, John Stuart Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind:

(philosophy) The quality or characteristic of being the cause of something.


ecthesis

From Ancient Greek ἐκθετικός (ekthetikós).

(logic, historical) An exposition or setting out; used by Aristotle in setting forth various proofs, though the nature of the process is disputed; perhaps simply writing out in letter notation.

The Ecthesis

a letter published in 638 CE by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius which defined Monothelitism as the official imperial form of Christianity.


Kallipolis

From Ancient Greek Καλλίπολις (Kallípolis, “City of Beauty”). Doublet of Callipolis, Gallipoli, and Gelibolu.

doublet

(philosophy) The utopian city-state ruled by philosopher-kings as theorised by Plato in the Republic.


shocked Pikachu

en-noun

shocked Pikachu (plural shocked Pikachus)

From an Internet meme based on a screencap of Pikachu with a shocked expression from the 1997 episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" of the animated series Pokémon: Indigo League.

Olivia's shocked-Pikachu face shifts into a full-on scowl.

2020, Anna Meriano, “Just Tell Them You Play Soccer”, in Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between, page 180:

I swear to god I had both of my eyes bulging out with my mouth wide open looking like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Sunehar Aneja, Angela Mathew, editors, And The Dandelions Fell Apart, page 83:

She didn't have to look so friggin' surprised about it. Like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Yayoi Ogawa, translated by Rose Padgett, Knight of the Ice 7, page 56:

(Internet slang) A Pikachu with a specific open-mouthed, erect-ear expression signifying shock and astonishment, especially regarding something that one should have expected.


KSR

Since, I've written more, mostly MSR and KSR.

1998 July 13, Athena1600, “Re: ARCHIVISTS AND AUTHORS!”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

It's the identification thing... maybe some of the people writing KSR *do* hate Mulder.

1998 December 3, Daddy793, “Re: Question for SKipper fic authors”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I'm a MSR and a KSR type myself, these are the stories I WANT to read.

1999 January 2, Char Priolo, “Re: "A KeyChain in the snow"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) Krycek/Scully romance; fan fiction involving a romantic relationship between the characters Alex Krycek and Dana Scully of the The X-Files.


volipresence

(theology) A form of omnipresence in which an entity is present wherever it wishes to be.