humaniac

By her own description, Berger was "an incredible humaniac" who tended to "see animals as individuals."

She wasn't what you'd call a humaniac. She was eighty-something and generally comported herself in good taste, mostly she wrote lots of letters.

2001, Robert Armstrong, Index of Suspicion, →ISBN, page 145:

Scoundrel just wished that this raving humaniac would get out of his way.

2012, Janice Zalewski, The Unraveling . . . of the Rug Merchants, →ISBN, page 168:

2013, Richard Stratton, Bulldog Edition, Stratton, Richard. (2013). Bulldog Edition. (Page 113.) Your Friend and Mine Press. Page 113, Your Friend and Mine Press.
I was sort of proud when the word "humaniacs" that I have used in my books to refer to overzealous animal welfare people, was picked up and used in the press.

By mixing advanced and beginner techniques, and by being contentious (if you don't like him) or too honest (if you do), Bill offered his “humaniac” adversaries a big, fat target.

2013, Donald McCaig, Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies, →ISBN:

(derogatory, slang) A person with overzealous views in support of animal welfare.


ergism

Faith without works is dogma-righteousness, orthodoxism. Works without the foundation of faith are work-righteousness, ergism.

1867, Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures:

Both enthusiasm and “ergism" are sheer illusion. Neither one is found in pure Christianity.

1900, The American Journal of Theology - Volume 4, Issue 1, page 146:

The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy.

2015, Søren Kierkegaard, Bruce H. Kirmmse, K. Brian Söderquist, Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2: Journals EE-KK, →ISBN:

(theology) The belief that good works are necessary for salvation.


BWWM

Initialism of black woman, white man: an interracial romance novel genre


agere sequitur esse

From Latin agere sequitur esse (“doing follows being”).

(philosophy) Thomist metaphysical and moral principle that indicates the connection of ontology, obligation, and ethics.


antiearth

This principle states that, if we could somehow replace every particle on earth with its antiparticle—thus creating a sort of antiearth—no one would be able to tell the difference.

1958, Columbia University Forum - Volumes 2-3, page 29:

Each extends what would be called, on antiearth, a right hand.

1982, Martin Gardner, The Ambidextrous Universe, page 278:

But actually, CPT only tells you that if you drop an apple to the earth it will fall exactly as if you drop an antiapple to an antiearth.

1989, Ronald W. Hellings, Relativistic Gravitational Experiments in Space, page 56:

Antiapples would still fall to antiearth, radioactive antielements would still decay, and antisugar would taste sweet

1998, Meher Antia, Matter, Antimatter, and Why Are We Here:

A hypothetical analog to earth composed entirely of antimatter.

The old imaginary antiearth (άγτιχϑωγ) of the Pythagoreans does not belong to the sphere of these conjectures. It and the Earth were supposed to have a parallel concentric movement; it was an idea devised to spare the Earth, which was supposed to perform around the central fire a planetary revolution in 24 hours, from having also to execute a movement of rotation, and, indead, represented no doubt the opposite hemisphere, or the antipodal half of our planet.

1852, Alexander von Humboldt, Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe:

For the later Pythagoreans the world was made up of four elements: earth, water, air, and fire; the universe had a spherical earth traveling around in a circle once every 24 hours (instead of rotating); there was an invisible central fire, with the sun reflecting light from it; and in order to have exactly 10 major bodies in the universe, there was stipulated an antiearth, visible only from the back of the earth.

1972, Dietrich Schroeer, Physics and its fifth dimension: society, page 63:

As for the planet high up to the right in the sky, I have not managed to ascertain whether it is a product of the Pythagorean Antiearth, or of the sentiment laid in my soul by the radiation of Planck's 'Black Body'

1992, Alberto Savinio, Alberto Savinio: paintings and drawings, 1925-1952, page 112:

Directly opposite the oikoumene was the "antichthones," or "opposite land," or "antiearth," also called the "periocci." It corresponded to the quarter of the globe North America occupies, and its night and day were the reverse of the oikoumene.

1998, Ronald H. Fritze, Travel Legend and Lore: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 17:

(historical) A hypothetical twin planet to earth, proposed by the Pythagoreans, which cannot be seen from earth.


antiearth

If particles that originally occupy a box which is 20RE long in the earth-antiearth direction and 10Rf wide perpendicular to the neutral sheet leak out of a slit of 4Rf wide with a speed of 400 km/s, it takes 800s before all the particles are lost.

1984, Edward W. Hones, Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Laboratory Plasmas:

The Rx antenna has a single hinge line and during launch the reflector dish is restrained against the antiearth panel by two hold-down points.

1985, STAR, an Abstract Journal - Volume 23, Issues 5-8, page 628:

Overview of LUCE The optical part of LUCE (LUCE-O) is installed on the plane of antiearth direction of OICETS for wide visibility of the geo-stationary satellite, ARTEMIS.

1995, Free-space Laser Communication Technologies:

One thought that much of curricula currently taught, including math and science, could be construed as antiearth, and that students need to feel they are being affected personally in order to be mobilized to action.

1992, Building A Shared Vision For Environmental Education, →ISBN, page 99:

They see these manifestations of a patriarchal biased mentality as antifeminist, antihuman and antiearth.

1995, Michael E. Salla, Walter Tonetto, Enrique Martínez, Essays on Peace: Paradigms for Global Order, →ISBN, page 80:

We were at a similar historical point at the turn of this century. The hesitation stage. A passing phase. On the side of the old, the Cassandras of the National Idea. On the new, us! Unreasonable wanderers in an antibody era, antiearth, antiflesh, hiding ourselves out of timidity, joyous because we were desperate, at home with our bodies, but without borders, ironic because unsure, nostalgic not of the past that is no more, but for a future that could be.

Opposed to or destructive of the earth and things native to the earth.


psychofunctionalism

(philosophy) Alternative form of psycho-functionalism


psychofunctionalist

(philosophy) Alternative form of psycho-functionalist


psycho-functionalist

(philosophy) One who believes in psycho-functionalism.


psycho-functionalism

(philosophy) A form of functionalism (philosophical paradigm of mind) based on the rejection of behaviorist theories in psychology and their replacement with empirical cognitive models of the mind.


conceptionism

From conception + -ism. In the philosophical sense, introduced by Ruth Millikan.

(philosophy) The belief that the extension of a concept or term is determined by some aspect of the speaker's conception of its extension.


subordinationism

(Christianity, theology) A doctrine regarding the Trinity, holding that the Son and possibly the Holy Spirit are inferior to the Father.


subordinationist

(Christianity, theology) A believer in subordinationism.


p-zombie

philosophical zombie
philosophical zombie#English

(philosophy) Abbreviation of philosophical zombie.


philosophical zombie

en-noun

philosophical zombie (plural philosophical zombies)

(philosophy) Any imaginary being that lacks consciousness but is used to illuminate various philosophical concepts.


Protevangelium

(theology) God's statement to the Serpent in the Garden of Eden about how the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head.


spectrophilia

These systems may be in the alternative insemination via mouth streams or spectrophilia or they may be in the actual birthing act or simulation of the act via ritual.

2007, Erica Eaton, Liminal: Spaces-in-between Visible and Invisible, page 52:

A paraphilia involving sexual excitement from ghosts or from images in mirrors.


child molestation

(crime) Sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.


irenicism

irenicism (usually uncountable, plural irenicisms)

A striking feature of this volume is the pronounced irenicism of the Americans, Lindbeck of Yale and Quanbeck of the Luther Theological Seminary at St. Paul, in contrast to the unsparingly critical approach of the Europeans.

1965, New Catholic World, volume 202, page 117:

The elector Palatine, as self-appointed Calvinist leader, promoted his own, narrow form of irenicism to remain within the Peace by finding common ground with Lutherans.

2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 122:

(theology, chiefly Christianity) Behaviour or belief that tends to resolve disputes between denominations or religions; irenical theology; conciliation.


effectual calling

He'll ſcreed you aff Effectual Calling, / As faſt as ony in the dwalling.— [...]

1801, Robert Burns, “The Inventory. In Answer to a Mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes.”, in Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Bard, […], Glasgow: […] Chapman & Lang, for Thomas Stewart, […], →OCLC, page 48:

(theology) The invitation to come to Christ which the elect receive.


cooperating grace

(theology) The Roman Catholic, Arminian and Socinian doctrine that the human will cooperates with the divine in the matter of saving grace.


rightdoer

(ethics) A person who does what is right.


onomatoid

(philosophy) In the philosophy of reism, any name denoting a state, relation, property, etc. rather than a body.


Sanamahism

A religion, philosophy and culture native to Manipur, characterized by the belief in reincarnation and a supreme oneness personified in many forms and natures.


qualitative leap

qualitative leap (plural qualitative leaps)

Modified from dialectical leap, the latter a calque of German dialektischer Sprung, a concept from Hegel's dialectical method. The modifier qualitative means that the leap in question is a transition in quality, where the latter should be understood in its original sense of “what-ness”, that is, the kind or nature of something.

(philosophy) A qualitative, non-gradual change resulting from a quantitatively minor change.


middle term

(logic) The term of a syllogism that appears in both the major premise and the minor premise, but not in the conclusion.


Neo-Confucianism

A Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism which originated in the Tang dynasty and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties.


documentary hypothesis

Out of this rare discovery have sprung the documentary hypothesis, the fragmentary hypothesis, and we know not how many more hypotheses, each of which has been maintained for a time, as self-evidently true, and then exploded.

1842, The Princeton Review, volume 14, page 205:

(theology) The hypothesis that the Pentateuch consists of two or more, usually four, originally distinct major documents.

oorkondenhypothese

literary-critical theory about the Penteteuch


counterinduction

(logic) The opposite process to induction (creation of a specific example of a general principle)


eternal now

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those—few at any moment on the earth—who do not "look before and after, and pine for what is not," but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

1879, George MacDonald, chapter 2, in Sir Gibbie:

We never go beyond the present. […] Tomorrow never comes. Our existence is enclosed within the divine moment, the eternal now.

1884, Warren Felt Evans, The Divine Law of Cure, page 107:

Who is it that needs history the most? Our children, of course. […] Unless they can be won to history, their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of eternal Now: the flickering instant that's gone as soon as it has arrived.

2010 November 9, Simon Schama, “My vision for history in schools”, in Guardian (UK), retrieved 2019-01-02:

Brynner used photography as a way to stay in love with his day job, filling hours spent waiting on film sets by strolling among friends and crew with a Leica slung around his neck. His images reveal a talent for accruing images of subjects utterly at ease in his presence and rare treasures indeed when seen alongside stilted studio publicity visuals. […] These are some of the most noted names of the era and—whether in stylish monochrome or courtesy of Kodachrome’s pinks and yellows—they appear rapt and relaxed, exhilarated to be living their kind of life in a sun-drenched, eternal now.

2012 January 14, Lucy Davies, “Yul Brynner: a photographic journey”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2019-01-02:

He quoted a former speechwriter for Mr. Bush, Michael Gerson, about Mr. Trump: “He lives in the eternal now—no history, no consequences.”

2018 October 18, Maggie Haberman, “A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts”, in New York Times (USA), retrieved 2019-01-02:

(religion, philosophy, psychology) The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.

[Heidegger] is trying to avoid any conception of time that begins with a distinction between time and eternity. On this understanding of time, classically expressed in Augustine's Confessions, temporality is derived from a higher non-temporal state of eternity, which is co-extensive with the infinite and eternal now of God.

2009 July 27, Simon Critchley, “Heidegger's Being and Time, part 8: Temporality”, in Guardian (UK), retrieved 2019-01-02:

(religion, philosophy) The nature of God's existence which is outside of time; the nature of a soul's existence in a supposed timeless afterlife.


preestablished harmony

(philosophy) Gottfried Leibniz's philosophical theory of causation, according to which every substance affects only itself, but all the substances in the world (both bodies and minds) nevertheless seem to interact with each other causally because they have been programmed in advance by God to harmonize with each other.


abrosexual

From Ancient Greek ἁβρός (habrós, “graceful”) + -sexual.

der

For quotations using this term, see Citations:abrosexual.

(rare) Having a changing or fluid sexual orientation, one that changes over time.


axiom of union

(set theory) One of the axioms in axiomatic set theory, equivalent to the statement that a union exists for any set, containing exactly all the elements contained within the sets within that set.


axiom of pairing

(set theory) One of the axioms in axiomatic set theory, equivalent to the statement that if two sets exist, there exists a set with those two sets as its sole elements.


axiom of infinity

(set theory) One of the axioms in axiomatic set theory that guarantees the existence of an infinite set.


axiom of regularity

(set theory) One of the axioms in axiomatic set theory, equivalent to the statement that every non-empty set contains a member that is disjoint from that set.


many-valued logic

en-noun

many-valued logic (plural many-valued logics)

propositional calculus
propositional calculus

(logic) A kind of non-classical propositional calculus whose semantics makes use of more than two truth values.


horned syllogism

horned syllogism (plural horned syllogisms)


aspectism

But despite the admonition, this triple aspectism disintegrates as the volume becomes divided into three parts, knowledge, feeling, and will.

1949, Benjamin Wolstein, Experience and valuation: a study in John Dewey's naturalism, page 12:

...and in his zeal to do justice to all the facts his categories proliferate into at least 25 or 26 pairs of polar opposites, each pair of which may be discussed in terms of his nine types—onepole-ism, other-pole-ism, dualism, and aspectism, each in both extreme and modified forms, and organicism as the ninth and central type.

1958, The Journal of Philosophy - Volume 55, page 56:

Psychophysiology proliferated with Cartesian interactionism, Liebnizian parallelism, and Spinozistic double aspectism.

1971, Jacob Robert Kantor, The aim and progress of psychology and other sciences:

(philosophy) The belief that apparently distinct features of a person (such as body vs. soul) are actually just different aspects, or ways of looking at, of a unified entity.


enlightened absolutism

enlightened absolutism (countable and uncountable, plural enlightened absolutisms)

(politics, philosophy) The policies of an absolute monarch who is influenced by the ideals of the Enlightenment.


black radio

(espionage) Radio broadcasting propaganda whose source and motivation are covert.


white radio

(espionage) Radio broadcasting propaganda whose source and motivation are apparent.


coredemptrix

Mary's involvement in salvation was said to make her coredemptrix along with Christ.

2001, “Mariology”, in Walter A. Elwell, editor, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Baker Academic, →ISBN, page 736:

(chiefly Roman Catholicism) A female coredeemer.


paytriot

Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?

2013 May 15, Stephen Lemons, “Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe”, in Phoenix New Times, archived from the original on 2019-03-11:

He has been called out as a supposed “secret government agent,” labeled a parasitic “pay-triot,” and even laughed at for his “botched” suicide attempt (where one commentator suggested that if a Green Beret wanted to kill himself, he would certainly know how to do it).

2018, Jeanne M. Haskin, ‘When All Roads Lead to the Standoff: How Corporate Governance Fuels White Supremacy, Algora Publishing, page 110:

Many of them turned to Neon Revolt, one of the most popular Q bloggers and a "paytriot" (i.e. someone who's trying to make a living off of Q Anon). Neon Revolt is widely read and respected among qultists. He directed Redditors to go to Voat's new Q sub, v/TheAwakening, the one started by former Reddit GA admins. This of course angered Voaters, but had nothing on what was going to happen next.

2018 September 15, Plexipus (username), “‘The famous Q blogger and "paytriot," Neon Revolt, accuses v/GreatAwakening of being compromised in a poorly researched post. Huge drama BOOM on Voat. But could there be more to his story than he realizes?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2018-09-15:

(derogatory, rare) A right-wing activist (especially a supporter of the QAnon movement) who uses the movement to make money for themselves rather than to advance its goals.


The Storm

From Donald Trump's mention of "the calm before the storm" in an October 2017 interview.

Like Pizzagate, the Storm conspiracy features secret cabals, a child sex-trafficking ring led (in part) by the satanic Democratic Party, and of course, countless logical leaps and paranoid assumptions that fail to hold up under the slightest fact-based scrutiny. However, unlike Pizzagate, the Storm isn’t focused on a single block of shops in D.C., or John Podesta’s emails. It’s much, much bigger than that.

2017 December 19, Paris Martineau, “The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse”, in New York, archived from the original on 2018-12-26:

In an online universe where conspiracy theories not only sprout like kudzu but attract bigger audiences the more outrageous and strange they grow, it was probably inevitable that an uber-theory like “The Storm” would become an overnight sensation.

2018 January 17, David Neiwert, “Conspiracy meta-theory 'The Storm' pushes the 'alternative' envelope yet again”, in Southern Poverty Law Center:

There are many extreme political conspiracy theories, with varying degrees of plausibility, things like “Pizzagate,” “The Storm,” “QAnon,” and “Russiagate.”

2018, West Mick, Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect:

QAnon, whose supporters also call it “The Storm” or “Great Awakening,” is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory that burst into greater visibility this summer, after supporters at a Trump rally wearing Q shirts prompted a rush of national media coverage about it.

2018 September 12, Abby Ohlheiser, “Reddit bans r/greatawakening, the main subreddit for QAnon conspiracy theorists”, in The Washington Post:

conspiracy theory
conspiracy theory#English


t-norm fuzzy logic

t-norm fuzzy logic (plural t-norm fuzzy logics)

(fuzzy logic) Any kind of fuzzy logic whose semantics valuates conjunctions by means of t-norms.


principle of sufficient reason

(philosophy) The proposition that nothing happens without a sufficient reason why it should be as it is and not otherwise.


psychogony

psychogony (countable and uncountable, plural psychogonies)

Borrowed from Middle French psychogonie, from Late Latin psychogonia, from Koine Greek ψυχογονία (psukhogonía), from ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul, mind”) + γόνος (gónos, “descent”). By surface analysis, psycho- + -gony.

(philosophy) The study of the origins and development of the soul or mind.


single procession

(theology) The emanation of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone, not the Son.


double procession

(theology) The emanation of the Holy Spirit from both Father and Son.


covenantalism

(theology) An interpretive framework for the Bible, viewing the history (and future) of God's dealings with humankind through the lens of the various covenants described in the Scriptures.


country team

(chiefly US, espionage) A group of people in charge of a state's intelligence operations in a foreign country, typically led by an ambassador.


Three Principles of the People

Calque of Chinese 三民主義／三民主义 (sānmínzhǔyì)

cal

(historical) The political philosophy espoused by Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Nationalist Party.


Ruist

en-adj

Ruist (comparative more Ruist, superlative most Ruist)

more Ruist (comparative)
most Ruist (superlative)


dyothelism

From that day, dyothelism became the official doctrine of the Orthodox Church, both in the East and in the West; and in the eighth century it found a most subtle expounder in John of Damascus.

1891, Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson, David Schley Schaff, A Religious Encyclopaedia:

Two years later Anastasius II reinstituted dyothelism, and the same bishops who had two years before vetoed dyothelism now changed their mind, and adopted it as the only true exposition of faith !

1894, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature:

Finally, the concept of divine adoption becomes a controlling feature of the theology of deification in Maximus, due to his concern to maintain dyothelism in christology, as well as in ascetic anthropology.

2002, Nicholas V. Sakharov, I Love, Therefore I Am: The Theological Legacy of Archimandrite Sophrony, →ISBN:

(Christianity, theology) The doctrine of two wills (human and divine) in Christ.


canonical disjunctive normal form

en-noun

canonical disjunctive normal form (uncountable)

Meronym: minterm

Disjunctive normal form
disjunctive normal form

(logic) Disjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the sum contain the same literals, so that the terms differ from each other only in their patterns of complementation (of their literals).

kanoninen disjunktiivinen normaalimuoto

disjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the sum contain the same literals, so that the terms differ from each other only in their patterns of complementation (of their literals)

but see kanoniczna alternatywna postać normalna


canonical conjunctive normal form

canonical conjunctive normal form (plural canonical conjunctive normal forms)

canonical conjunctive normal forms (plural)

Conjunctive normal form
conjunctive normal form

(logic) Conjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the product contain the same literals, so that the terms differ from each other only in their patterns of complementation (of their literals).

but see kanoniczna koniunkcyjna postać normalna


eidetics

(philosophy) The study of eidetic reduction.


fish-hook theory

(Christianity, theology, informal) The Christus Victor theory of atonement.


argument from illusion

argument from illusion (plural arguments from illusion)

(philosophy) An argument for the existence of sense-data, and thus a criticism of direct realism, according to which what we perceive (such as a stick that looks bent because it is viewed underwater) is distinct from the actual thing perceived (the straight stick).


nasophilia

A paraphilia involving sexual attraction to the nose or nostrils; nose fetishism.


oculophilia

A paraphilia involving sexual attraction to eyes and the licking of eyes; eye fetishism.


hysterical historical

hysterical historical (plural hysterical historicals)

(slang) A historical-romance novel with a focus on sex and violence.


TELINT

(espionage) Initialism of telemetry intelligence.


FISINT

(espionage) Initialism of foreign instrumentation signals intelligence.


COMINT

Blend of communications + intelligence. Compare HUMINT etc.

communications intelligence
communications intelligence#English

(espionage) Abbreviation of communications intelligence.


thealogian

One who studies the or a goddess, or the feminine divine, e.g. from a feminist viewpoint.


enactivism

(philosophy) The theory that cognition arises through enaction between an organism and its environment.


J/Cer

They are both in a script-like style I am a committed J/Cer, so I do include romantic developments.

1996 September 19, CWilson980, “Voy Alternate Basics J/C pt 1”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

The story I'm referring to was identified as a vignette and it was very sad, well at least it was sad for a J/Cer such as I.

1998 April 12, Di, “Help finding a Story”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

A lovely 'what if' that all ardent J/Cers would love to see.

2001 March 23, Kattz, “VOY Feedback Vote #3 by CyberMum”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

A fan who ships the Star Trek characters Kathryn Janeway and Chakotay.


J/C

Initialism from the names Janeway and Chakotay.

(Had I missed "Elogium" I would have oh-so-little material for the J/C crusade!)

1995 December 1, schlock, “STARDIARY #6: MAYBE IT'S TIME TREKKERS WENT *ON STRIKE*.”, in alt.startrek (Usenet):

I am thinking of starting an all-ages list for J/C fans […]

1998 October 6, MsSpooky83, “OT-J/C mailing list?”, in alt.startrek (Usenet):

Christine says this is possibly her last J/C fic, but I seriously hope it's not as her 'voice' in VOY fic is truly memorable.

2013 March 29, ASC Awards, “ASC Awards Comment Digest #246 Janeway/Chakotay”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kathryn Janeway and Chakotay from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.


Tridemism

Calque from Chinese 三民主義／三民主义, tri- + demo- + -ism.

Three Principles of the People
Three Principles of the People

(historical, politics) The Three Principles of the People.


solar boat

(archaeology, Egyptology) A wooden burial boat intended to be used by a king to make celestial journeys in the afterlife.

(archaeology, Egyptology) The boat that, in myth, carries the sun on its journey across the sky; solar barque.


ought-not-ness

(chiefly philosophy) The quality of an action being morally obligatory not to perform.


indifferentistic

en-adj

indifferentistic (comparative more indifferentistic, superlative most indifferentistic)

more indifferentistic (comparative)
most indifferentistic (superlative)

(philosophy, religion) Expressing or relating to indifferentism.


polycule

Blend of polyamory + molecule. Coined around the 2010s.

Our polycule doubled in size when my spouse started seeing Boris, whose husband has six other partners.

The five of us started calling ourselves a "polycule" back in the fall of 2012, when our relationships and sexual lives were so thoroughly entangled with one another that we looked like several relationship atoms often sharing orbits together.

2015, Julie Fennell, “Polyculous bonds”, in Elisabeth Sheff, editor, Stories from the polycule: Real life in polyamorous families, Portland, OR: Thorntree Press, →ISBN:

While nonmonogamy doesn't always mean having multiple partners, Ezra's polycule comprises multiple sexual partners.

2018 November 16, Josephine Yurcaba, “Ezra Miller Discussed Polyamory and Past Abuse”, in Teen Vogue, archived from the original on 2019-05-28:

Unbeknownst to him, Janice had, some three weeks prior, broken up with one of her partners from a polycule in Colorado.

2018, T. J. Thomson, “The Evolution of Story: How Time and Modality Affect Visual and Verbal Narratives Quarterly”, in Visual Communication, volume 25, number 4, →DOI, page 204:

The duo and eight others comprising the financial whiz’s inner circle shared a tony penthouse in the Bahamas, a living arrangement that some, including tech mogul Elon Musk, reportedly described as a “polycule”– that is, “a connected network of people and relationships, all of whom are in some way involved emotionally, sexually, or romantically with at least one other person”.

[2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Sarah is more reserved, especially when it comes to sharing details about “tender” situations, and she’s also protective of the other members of her polycule. What one part of the polycule says about another could have huge, messy ripple effects throughout the whole group.

2024 January 16, Allison P. Davis, “What Does a Polycule Actually Look Like?”, in New York Magazine:

But among all the throuples, polycules and nesting partners, there exists another category of polyamory that still throws many for a loop: solo polyamory, or having concurrent intimate relationships while maintaining independence.

2024 August 2, Gina Cherelus, “You’re ‘Solo Poly’? So … You’re Single?”, in The New York Times:

A polyamorous group of indivuals connected by their overlapping romantic, sexual, or platonic relationships.


free-willer

1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry dated May 1847, in Stephen E. Whicher (ed.), Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Organic Anthology, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957, p. 310,
The Americans are free-willers, fussy, self-asserting, buzzing all round creation.

[…] the saviour is no longer the volition of the full-grown spirit of Man, the Free Willer of Necessity, sword in hand, but simply Love […]

1898, George Bernard Shaw, “Forgotten ere finished”, in The Perfect Wagnerite:


Boolean atom

This is a consequence of a fact established earlier, namely, that any set C formed by choosing one formula from each Sⱼ must contain some formula πB and its conjugate, where B is a Boolean atom of X.

1975, Sue Ann Toledo, Tableau systems for first order number theory and certain order theories, page 234:

If C is a Boolean atom, the claim is obviously true.

1982, Krister Segerberg, Classical propositional operators, page 55:

A list is a bit vector if each of its members is a Boolean atom.

1994, Specification and Verification of Gate-level VHDL Models of Synchronous and Asynchronous Circuits, page 4:

(logic) A logical proposition that cannot be derived from other logical propositions by a Boolean operation.


nonrepresentationalism

(philosophy) A philosophical approach denying that something is representational.


unmaterialist

unmaterialist (comparative more unmaterialist, superlative most unmaterialist)

more unmaterialist (comparative)
most unmaterialist (superlative)


endoconsistency

en-noun

endoconsistency (countable and uncountable, plural endoconsistencies)

Now, according to the two aspects of Gödoel's theorem, proof of the consistency of arithmetic cannot be represented within the system (there is no endoconsistency), and the system necessarily comes up against true statements that are nevertheless not demonstrable, are undecidable (there is no exoconsistency, or the consistent system cannot be complete).

1996, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?, →ISBN, page 137:

The concept just always is its consistency in its variations: “the concept is defined by its consistency, its endoconsistency and exoconsistency, but it has no reference; it is self-referential.”

1998, Lohren David Green, Interpreting Nietzche: The Role of Style in the History of Philosophy:

Components, or what defines the consistency of the concept, its endoconsistency, are distinct, heterogeneous, and yet not separable.

2000, South African Journal of Philosophy - Volume 19, Issues 2-4, page 291:

The concrete machinic assemblage, according to Deleuze and BGuattari, has an internal or endoconsistency that 'renders components inseparable within itself'.

2012, Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, →ISBN, page 126:

(philosophy) Internal consistency; the fusion of components into an inseparable whole.


exoconsistency

exoconsistency (countable and uncountable, plural exoconsistencies)

The exoconsistency between concepts depends on their being able to inhabit the same plane.

2002, Linda Pavlovski, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, →ISBN, page 130:

However, just as it was impossible to understand the concept of solidarity in Deleuze and Guattari without the concept of 'exoconsistency' (that bridged the concrete machines between different abstract machines), so it is impossible to understand the concept of solidarity in Zapatismo without also understanding the concept of puentes or 'bridges' that connect the concrete actions and consequences of different political events.

2012, Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, →ISBN, pages 174–175:

(philosophy) Consistency with external elements; semantic compatibility.


polycontextural

(philosophy) Of or relating to polycontexturality.


ex opere operato

(theology) From the work worked; referring to sacraments deriving their power from Christ's work rather than the role of humans, and thus not requiring faith to be effective.


NOMAP

minor-attracted person
minor-attracted person#English

Initialism of nonoffending minor-attracted person; a pedophile, hebephile or ephebophile who does not engage in child sexual abuse, the consumption of child pornography, or other child sex offenses.


micropsychism

The resulting all-inclusive potential explanatory advantage of protophenomenalism over phenomenal micropsychism is offset by the liability that it proposes properties of which we currently have at best only a minimal conception.

2013, Uriah Kriegel, Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind, →ISBN:

According to Strawson, micropsychism is a position similar to property dualism insofar as it takes mentality to be a fundamental property of physical systems.

2013, Michael Blamauer, The Mental as Fundamental: New Perspectives on Panpsychism, →ISBN:

Either materialism, dualism, neutral monism, or micropsychism provides the best explanation of consciousness.

2015, Edwin C. May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science, →ISBN:

(philosophy) The belief that the physical world is independent of the mind, and that some ultimates have experiential properties that are fundamentally necessary in the explanation of consciousness.


nomothetics

nomothetics (countable and uncountable, plural nomothetics)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθετικός (nomothetikós).

bor

1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press.
The antimony that reveals itself in the application of the law is for our limited wisdom the best way to test nomothetics[.]

(philosophy, rare) system defining laws or rules


major term

(logic) In a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.


minor term

The minor term in John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism is Socrates; the major term is mortal.

(logic) The subject of the conclusion in a categorical syllogism.


metatheorem

From these observations we conclude that we have the following metatheorem. Metatheorem 3: If φ is a theorem of second-order monadic predicate logic, then trs'(φ) is a theorem of our present conceptualist logic.

2007, Nino B. Cocchiarella, Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 224:

The metatheorem of deduction will play an essential role ...

2008, Walter Carnielli, Marcelo Coniglio, Dov M. Gabbay, Paula Gouveia, Cristina Sernadas, Analysis and Synthesis of Logics: How to Cut and Paste Reasoning Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 70:

This paper presents a metatheorem with the following property: Given a proven axiom-free lemma, which interrelates some of the elementary properties of a binary relation, the metatheorem mechanically transforms this lemma into its uniquely corresponding complementary lemma.

(logic) A statement about theorems proven in a metalanguage.


fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

Elongated form of fu, a clipping of fuck. The specific elongation length was coined on Reddit in December 2008, in reference to rage comics on 4chan earlier in 2008. 7 "F"s and 12 "U"s are used as a reference to the /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu subreddit or its community. The term is sometimes shortened to f7u12.

"Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu!" I yell. It hurts my ears.

2009, Ryan Collins, Complicated Weather, →ISBN, page 264:

New semester starting, all I have to say is: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

2011, The East Carolinian, volume 86, number 59, archived from the original on 2023-02-26, page A3:

What, I can't swear while playing video games any more??? #FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

2013 December 12, James Taylor, Bellarine Times, volume 6, number 50, page 94:

(Internet slang) Elongated form of clipping of fuck.


separationism

(theology) The belief that the human Jesus Christ was a separate being from the divine Christ.


psychocentric

en-adj

psychocentric (comparative more psychocentric, superlative most psychocentric)

more psychocentric (comparative)
most psychocentric (superlative)

The adjective is derived from psycho- (prefix meaning ‘relating to the mind or soul’) + -centric (suffix meaning ‘having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective.
Adjective sense 2 (“of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks”) and the noun sense (“tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks”) were coined by the American travel researcher Stanley C. Plog in a paper presented to the Southern California Chapter of the Travel Research Association on 10 October 1972, which was later published in February 1974: see the quotation.

coinage

I have confessed that I feel drawn to you by many psychocentric influences.

1890 January 11, “His Choice”, in Pick-Me-Up, volume III, number 67, London: […] Wertheimer, Lea & Co., […]; and published by Henry Reichardt, […], →OCLC, page 244, columns 1–2:

For the issue between realism and subjectivism does not arise from a psychocentric predicament—a difficulty of conceiving of objects apart from any consciousness—but rather from the much more radical 'ego-centric predicament,' the difficulty of conceiving known things to exist independently of my knowing them.

1912 August, Edwin B[issel] Holt et al., “Introduction”, in The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section I (The Historical Significance of the New Realism), page 7:

My view is psychocentric in that a judgment which appears to have an objective reference is found psychologically to have a reference, unsuspected by the person judging, to himself. But an account of it is not a complete psychocentric exposition until one or two gaps are filled in. […] I have chosen to illustrate the psychocentric concept by means of right rather than good merely because this concept has been taken as the more fundamental in modern ethics.

1936, J[ohn] O[ulton] Wisdom, “Towards the Psychocentric Conception of Right”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, volume XXXVI (New Series), London: Harrison and Sons, […], →JSTOR, →OCLC, section III, page 73:

[T]his alienation was a result of the introduction of rational calculation and power as a socially and economically determining factor, which implied the elimination of the Christian (and older) psychocentric traditions, faiths, social and personal relations.

1959, Liberation, New York, N.Y.: Liberation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:

But there is a fundamental difference between Greek and Gothic sculpture, despite the very similar treatment of draperies and the human form. To the Greeks, the face was merely part of the body. The Gothic makes it the 'window of the soul'. Gothic faces are psychocentric, dominated by the soul, which speaks through the eye.

1963, Hans Weigert, “[Introduction]”, in Peter Gorge, transl., edited by Harald Busch and Bernd Lohse, Gothic Sculpture (European Sculpture), New York, N.Y.: Macmillan, →OCLC, page vii:

In most psychocentric religions, the cosmic forces or gods not only create and control physical processes, they are often embodied themselves; in physiocentric religions the cosmic forces, however mindless, create human consciousness and determine human will.

1990, Gavin I. Langmuir, “Physiocentric Religion”, in History, Religion, and Antisemitism, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., Oxford, Oxfordshire: University of California Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Proposals for a Historiographic Solution), page 230:

Surrogationalism holds that words stand for things or ideas, and therefore emphasizes the function of language. […] He [Roy Harris] likewise divides surrogationalism into two types, "reocentric", which "supposes that the things words stand for are to be located 'out there' in the world external to the individual language-user", and "psychocentric", which "supposes that what words stand for is to be located internally, that is to say in the mind of the language-user"[…].

1997, John E. Joseph, “The ‘Language Myth’ Myth: Roy Harris’s Red Herrings”, in George Wolf, Nigel Love, editors, Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and His Critics (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV; Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 148), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 14:

In the work of individual theorists, psychocentric and reocentric assumptions are often combined in various ways. If you think that the word copper is to be defined by reference to the actual properties of a certain metal, your definition will be reocentric. But if you take it to be defined by reference to certain conceptions of, or beliefs about, a metal (whether such conceptions or beliefs are mistaken or not), your definition will be psychocentric.

2005, Roy Harris, “Introduction”, in The Semantics of Science, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 3:

[I]ntensive logging would inevitably cause non-humans to suffer during the activity of logging itself and as a longer-term consequence of habitat destruction. A psychocentric ethic would count this as an ethical minus, which must be taken into account in evaluating the logging policy, in addition to how things will be for humans.

2009, Robert Charles Elliot, “Ethics and Values”, in Robert Charles Elliot, editor, Institutional Issues Involving Ethics and Justice (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems; 3), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Eolss Publishers, →ISBN, section 5.2 (Psychocentric Ethics), page 264:

(philosophy) Primarily focused on the mind or spirit, especially as opposed to the body.


Frege

Gottlob Frege, a German mathematician and philosopher.


Dyophysitic

(theology) Of or relating to the Dyophysites.


Dyophysitism

(theology) The doctrine of the Dyophysites.


negative utilitarianism

(ethics) A form of utilitarianism that says we should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that we should minimize suffering and then, secondarily, maximize the total amount of happiness.


antispeciesism

(philosophy, ethics) An ethical stance which opposes the unjustified consideration or treatment of sentient individuals who are not classified as belonging to a certain species.


scalphunter

There is one class of spook we have not encountered as yet. This is the scalp-hunter, or defector-hunter. Quite often a scalp-hunter will be more valuable than almost any other intelligence operator.

1982, Richard Deacon, With My Little Eye: The Memoirs of a Spy-Hunter, page 103:

But agency policy is that the case officer is, in the jargon, a "scalp hunter" who must turn a contact into an agent […]

2002, Angelo Codevilla, Informing Statecraft, page 82:

(espionage) An agent who vets potential defectors.


meta-induction

(logic, philosophy) The use of inductive reasoning to select the best choice from a number of different methods of prediction.


factiality

(philosophy) In the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux, the principle that things could be other than they are — we can imagine reality as being fundamentally different even if we never know such a reality — part of a critique of correlationism.


chungus

en-noun

chungus (countable and uncountable, plural chunguses or chungi)

/ˈt͡ʃʌŋ.ɡəs/

From chunk. Compare humongous (“extremely large”, adjective) or dingus (“any object or thing; a foolish person”, noun), and chonk. Attested from the late 2010s.

Why did i even open my disgusting chungus eyes this morning

Im a fat disgusting unloveable chungus piece of shit

I thought it couldn't get any more chungus. I was wrong.

my final straw. goodbye. fuck my stupid chungus life.

(Internet slang, humorous, attributive) A nonsense word or placeholder, often used incongruously in self-deprecating or doomer-like speech.


process theology

process theology (countable and uncountable, plural process theologies)

A kind of theology developed from process philosophy, and according to which it is an essential attribute of God to affect and be affected by temporal processes, rather than being eternal and immutable.


burnination

Burnination! O'Meara swore as I rolled up to my feet, pain pricking along my ribs where Feather's claws had found flesh.

A minced oath used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.


Jonerys

Leaked pictures show actors Emilia Clark^([sic]) and Kit Harrington^([sic]) on set together, meaning that their paths are finally going to cross and, let’s face it, we’ve all been shipping Jonerys (and we can just ignore Jon’s real parentage. Ahem).

2017 July 11, Jadie Troy-Pryde, “Daenerys’ list of admirers is out of control in Game of Thrones season 7”, in Marie Claire:

The episode description of the season finale, titled The Dragon And The Wolf, points in that direction as well, with a subtle hint about a steamy 'Jonerys' moment.

2017 August 27, Kabita Maharana, “Jon Snow and Daenerys sex scene teased in Game of Thrones season 7 finale description”, in International Business Times:

Jonerys offspring to be named later

2019, Jeremy Egner, "Who will win 'Game of Thrones'? Here are the favorites", The Daily Mail (Greene Country, New York), 20-21 April 2019, page C2

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.


Braime

Next up: Spider-Stark, A Braime Reunion, and VIOLENCE.

2016 June 10, Vinnie Mancuso, “‘Game of Thrones’ Guide, Week 8: Every Question We Have Before ‘No One’”, in Observer:

Bad news for all you Braime shippers out there, as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau doesn't think his character Jaime will get together with Brienne in Game of Thrones.

2017 July 14, Matthew Erao, “Game of Thrones: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Doubts Jaime/Brienne Romance”, in Screen Rant:

It also comes after he finally hooked up with Brienne, a long-in-the-making love connection that “Braime” fans have been waiting for since season two.

2019 May 7, Lindsey Romain, “What Is Jaime Planning to Do with Cersei?”, in Nerdist:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.


Jonsa

Jon Snow and Sansa Stark, dubbed "Jonsa," is a widely discussed pairing among Game of Thrones fans, despite their dubious half-sibling / cousin status […]

2019 April 10, Benjamin Fearnow, “Jamie x Brienne, Gendrya and Jonsa: The Weird and Wild Couples 'Game of Thrones' Fans Want to See Get Together”, in Newsweek:

The moment sets the relationship between Jon and Sansa (Jonsa) at tension with the relationship between Jon and Dany (Jonerys).

2019 April 15, Henry McKenna, “Is Sansa Stark in love with Jon Snow?”, in USA Today:

Jonsa fans, convinced that Jon was just pretending to fancy Daenerys for political gain, went searching for subtextual support for their theories.

2019 April 21, Joanna Robinson, “The Game of Thrones Fan War Only George R.R. Martin Saw Coming”, in Vanity Fair:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Jon Snow and Sansa Stark from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.


Gendrya

While likely an overt reference to Gendry's Baratheon heritage, but many Gendrya shippers also hope that secret has something to do with the younger Stark sister.

Still, not everyone's onboard the Gendrya hype train.

2019 April 14, Jen Glennon, “Will Gendry And Arya Get Together On 'Game Of Thrones'? Premiere Hints 'Gendrya' Could Happen In Season 8”, in Newsweek:

'Gendrya' shippers have eagerly awaited this moment since season one.

2019 April 25, Catherine Regen, “Game of Thrones strikes controversy”, in Old Gold & Black, page 19:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Gendry and Arya Stark from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.


point-instant

But out of time and space came point-instants, and out of point-instants came a universe.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 57:

(physics, philosophy) The smallest unit of space-time; a particular point along the continua of space and time.


playersexual

en-adj

playersexual (comparative more playersexual, superlative most playersexual)

more playersexual (comparative)
most playersexual (superlative)

All of the marriageable characters in farming simulator Stardew Valley are "playersexual", meaning they will marry the player regardless of gender.

2016 December 29, Gita Jackson, “2016 Was A Great Year For 'Shipping Our Favourite Characters”, in Kotaku Australia:

The fact that 65 characters can be interested in a same-sex relationship within Skyrim but only with the player is indicative of the fact that these characters are not bisexual, pansexual, or some other form of plurisexual—they are playersexual.

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

DA2 provides a notable contrast with both Origins and Inquisition in that all non-DLC romanceable characters are “playersexual”; […]

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, of an NPC) Attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.


galaxy-brain

galaxy-brain (comparative more galaxy-brain, superlative most galaxy-brain)

more galaxy-brain (comparative)
most galaxy-brain (superlative)

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

From a popular image macro meme in which a series of increasingly absurd or surreal thoughts is paired with images of a human brain expanding and emitting progressively brighter beams of light, thus ironically framing the ideas as too profound for average minds to comprehend.

On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic.

2018 September 20, Barry Thompson, “Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party”, in DigBoston, page 12:

Permatemp, the upcoming album from A. J. Herring's usually one-man band Velma and the Happy Campers, seeks to explore the galaxy-brain realization that the only permanent thing about life is its impermanence.

2019, Natalia Galicza, "For The Record", The Fine Print, Winter 2019, page 10

Hollywood is no stranger to the occasional galaxy-brain take, but this one is pretty out there—as Warner Bros. execs evaluated Todd Phillips’s Joker script back in 2017, they reportedly found themselves in “lively conversations” centered around one jarring question: Does Joker really need to be about, like, the Joker?

2019 October 28, Laura Bradley, “Does Joker Really Have to Be About the Joker? Warner Bros. Execs Reportedly Debated Just That”, in Vanity Fair:

(Internet slang, sarcastic) Appearing to be insightful and profound, but actually absurd, incomprehensible, or nonsensical.


dynamilogy

The plan of the book as to speculative philosophy has, unless we are greatly mistaken, been adapted in the main from Sanseverino, and if so, we only regret that the great master has not been followed in his arrangement which places dynamilogy immediately after formal logic.

1894, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review - Volume 10, page 77:

In short, the present volume covers the ground which is generally known as Dynamilogy, and has for its subject matter the various powers of the soul and their respective acts.

Metaphysics. — Dynamilogy or the faculties of the soul: — intellect, will, sensibility, (organs of sensibility: the senses).

1899, Québec (Province). Dept. of Public Instruction, Report of the Superintendent of Education of the Province of Quebec for the Year 1898-99, page 376:

Archelogia philosophies nova, or, New principles of philosophy containing philosophy in general, metaphysicks or ontology, dynamilogy or a discourse of power, religio philosophi or natural theology, physicks or natural philosophy.

1990, University Microfilms International, Early English books, 1641-1700:

(philosophy, archaic) The study of the powers of the soul; the study of the capabilities of living or sentient beings.


receptionism

(theology) The Anglican doctrine that, during the Eucharist, the bread and wine remain unchanged after consecration, but that communicants receive the body and blood of Christ by faith when they consume the bread and wine.


bioconservatism

But the charge of bioconservatism greatly misrepresents the nature and underestimates the profundity of Kass's philosophical position within the constellation of reflection that has come to be known as "bioethics" (see Vogel 2006).

Rather than assuming that experimentation with the conceptual and moral foundations of culture is essential to social progress, cultural bioconservatism is oriented toward conserving and renewing traditions that have proven over time to contribute to a community of morally reciprocal relationships and to the viability of local ecosystems.

Typical bioconservatism does not focus on the psychological, phenomenological, or ontological consequences of posthumanization for the individual posthumanized being.

2018, Matthew E. Gladden, Sapient Circuits and Digitalized Flesh:

A stance of skepticism regarding radical technological changes that challenge traditional notions of what it means to be human, including human uniqueness, physiological and genetic determinism, etc.


radical empiricism

(philosophy) A theory of knowledge championed by William James which contested that the relations between objects are as real as the objects themselves and values experience as a way of knowing.


Stirneresque

Stirneresque (comparative more Stirneresque, superlative most Stirneresque)

more Stirneresque (comparative)
most Stirneresque (superlative)

(philosophy) Reminiscent of the works of the German philosopher Max Stirner (1806–1856).


sigint

en-noun

sigint (countable and uncountable, plural sigints)


humint

humint (countable and uncountable, plural humints)


bodice-ripping

en-adj

bodice-ripping (comparative more bodice-ripping, superlative most bodice-ripping)

more bodice-ripping (comparative)
most bodice-ripping (superlative)

There was, nearly always, ecstasy at the moment of entry. Jesus. What a cheap, bodice-ripping insult of a word.

1997, Joanna M. Glass, If We are Women, page 33:

If you're going to be selling workshops on how to write a winning romance novel to romance writers' groups, you know every would-be bodice-ripping author in five states.

2006, Entrepreneur Press, Start Your Own Seminar Production Business, page 48:

His realist twenty-first century marital rape pays literal homage to the bodice-ripping violence of popular historical romances: He backhanded her again, much harder, and threw her backwards across the bed.

2010, Gay Lynch, Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History:

Polselli seemed to have been deeply a›ected by the British Hammer vampire movies, for his two early productions are steeped in nice-looking atmospheric sets and cast with busty, bodice-ripping actresses.

2015, Louis Paul, Italian Horror Film Directors, page 304:


necrobestiality

But even if you weren't boycotting the film on the basis of its disgraceful necrobestiality theme, boycotting it on the basis of its vampires is reason enough.

2012, Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate:

American participants intuitively judged a wide variety of enormously immoral acts (e.g., serial murder, consensual incest, necrobestiality, cannibalism) as representative of atheists, […]

2021, Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R. Johnson, Varieties of Atheism in Science, page 137:

Sexual activity involving a dead animal.


warcore

Coined by Steff Yotka in Vogue in 2018, from war + -core.

Arguably, this strain of warcore clothing is reflective of the violence, chaos, and widespread anxiety in the world at large.

2018 July 27, Steff Yotka, “Has Warcore Replaced Normcore in Fashion?”, in Vogue:

Your trench coat, your chinos, your Father’s Day necktie—your closet overflows with gear that was originally worn by stout patriots, fearful conscripts, and paid killers. But this warcore thing is new.

2019 March 6, Troy Patterson, “From Grunt Style to 'Warcore,' Civilians Are Embracing Military Fashion”, in The New Yorker:

They can be thrown on top of a denim jacket or underneath a light coat for extra warmth, or can even be worn as part of a multi-pocketed warcore ensemble.

2020 January 2, Adam Welch, Ashley Clarke, “20 menswear essentials for 2020”, in Mr Porter:

A style of fashion characterised by aspects of military apparel.


Funkspiel

From German Funkspiel; originally the name of a Nazi counterintelligence operation during World War II.

After a few months of Funkspiel, Giskes' bag was impressive: fifty-three agents taken prisoner immediately on arrival from England; […]

1969, Gilles Perrault, The Red Orchestra, page 147:

At the same time, Gehlen began to score successes with one of his other specialities, his own form of Funkspiel, […]

1981, Anthony Read, David Fisher, Operation Lucy: most secret spy ring of the Second World War:

Used the Russian version of funkspiel to do it, too.

2009, Dan Speers, Master Spies Die Laughing, page 93:

(espionage) The practice of sending deceptive information to the enemy by means of their official channels that have been subverted.


ubiquitism

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -ism.

The offers of several Lutheran divines—opponents of ubiquitism —to write a reply, were declined by the Bishops.

1885, Edmund De Schweinitz, The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum, page 417:

This note is then immediately followed by a discussion about another process of 'usurpation' in connection with place: that of transubstantiation and the doctrine of ubiquitism.

1999, Jas Elsner, Jaś Elsner, John Elsner, Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel, page 112:

She argues this in express critique of Luther's “ubiquitism” that supposedly stretches Jesus out everywhere.

2015, Paul R. Hinlicky, Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom, page 604:

(theology, Christianity) The belief that the human nature of Christ is omnipresent.


Aristippan

Aristippan (comparative more Aristippan, superlative most Aristippan)

more Aristippan (comparative)
most Aristippan (superlative)

(chiefly historical) Alternative form of Aristippian, of or related to Aristippus of Cyrene or Aristippus the Younger.


Aristippan

(chiefly historical) Alternative form of Aristippian, an adherent of Cyrenaicism, the school of philosophy founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.


allegorism

en-noun

allegorism (usually uncountable, plural allegorisms)

He goes so far as to affirm that in Scripture 'all has a spiritual meaning, but not everything has a literal meaning' (De princ. 2,3,5). We have here the point of departure for all the exaggerations of medieval allegorism.

2000, Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis Vol 2: The Four Senses Of Scripture, page 277:

The issue of the merits or demerits of allegorism became pronounced at the close of the 13th century and was keenly contested in the polemical literature of the second Maimonidean controversy.

2007, Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum, Encyclopaedia Judaica - Volume 3, page 645:

(theology) The belief that the primary value and significance of what is earthly and tangible is the way it points to the divine.


Rousselian

en-adj

Rousselian (comparative more Rousselian, superlative most Rousselian)

more Rousselian (comparative)
most Rousselian (superlative)

But it is to the United States that we must turn if we would see the re-incarnation of the Rousselian spirit at its best and at its worst […].

1911, William Boyd, The Educational Theory of Jean Jacques Rousseau:

Pertaining to the life or doctrines of the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.


evential

evential (comparative more evential, superlative most evential)

more evential (comparative)
most evential (superlative)

/ɪˈvɛnt͡ʃəl/

Moreover, the three orders of duration—evential, conjunctural, and structural—are regarded as commensurable in the terms of the same scale.

1974, Hermonio Martins, “Time and Theory in Sociology”, in John Rex, editor, Approaches to Sociology (RLE Social Theory): An Introduction to Major Trends in British Sociology, →ISBN, page 268; republished by Routledge, 2015 August 21:

[…]ontic actualities, while evential events not only reveal the fundamental significance of the happening of events[…]

2005, Ian Graham Leask, Eoin G. Cassidy, editors, Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion, Fordham University Press, →ISBN, page 174:

Nonetheless, this world is not the objective and evential universe in which we live together as objects exchangeable and replaceable with other objects. It is the world where each one or each thing is alone and equal.

2014 December 6, Tristan Garcia, translated by Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 331:

(metaphysics) Pertaining to or composed of events.


drogulus

Coined by the English philosopher A. J. Ayer.

(philosophy) Something that exists but whose existence cannot be verified because it is completely intangible.


flaps and seals

(espionage) The covert interception and examination of postal mail.


soulmark

“Unfortunately, it's not defective. Though most people's soulmarks only recognize one other soul, yours seems to recognize two.”

2011, Angela Corbett, Eternal Starling, unnumbered page:

The changes to Darcy's soulmark correspond with her soulmate's state of mind.

2017, Kinga Kowalska, “Embodied Soulmarks and Social Expectations: The Materialization of Romantic Love in Soulmate AU Fanfiction”, in Anna Malinowska, Michael Gratzke, editors, The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice, unnumbered page:

In the fan fiction adaptation, Someone_aka_me uses the same lines to forge a connection between Alec and Magnus, both figuratively (putting both characters in the same scene and having them react to and impact each other) and literally (this particular piece of fan fiction introduces an alternative plotline in which Magnus’s words activate a soulbond between them, as they match a pre-existing soulmark imprinted on Alec’s skin).

2018, Malin Brus, "'I Don't Think We've Been Formally Introduced?": Re-contextualising a Literary Model for First Meetings through Adaptation Theory and Fan Fiction", dissertation submitted to the University of Gothenburg, page 21

(fandom slang) A mark on a character's body identifying their soulmate(s); the physical manifestation of a character's soulbond.


weird flex, but OK

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-weird flex, but OK.wav

In an ACU blog written in 2010, GATA's claim to fame is that they are the "oldest continuously named social club on the ACU campus" (weird flex, but OK).

2018, Lauren Franco, "Pink and green since 1919, ACU's oldest club", The Optimist (Abiline Christian University), 12 October 2018, page 10

To the girl who kept sending snapchats during lecture with her front flash on...weird flex but ok

2018, Courtney, quoted in "Shoutout," The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin), 13 November 2018, page 21

Pencil – Doing assignments in pen? Weird flex but ok.

2019 September, Abby Paul, “What essential school supply did you forget?”, in The Bridge, University of Alberta, page 15:

Much like when an actor in a play breaks the fourth wall and speaks to the audience, but the other characters on stage, who also witnss the actor speaking and acting, don't understand to whom the actor is actually talking, and in this case neither does the actor himself, as it is an unconscious address. One is left asking, "why are you telling me this or doing this?" Or in more modern lingo, "that's a weird flex, but OK."

2020, Bethany Morris, Chase Kelly O'Gwin, Sebasteinne Grant, Sakenya McDonald, Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice, Routledge, →ISBN:

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that one finds an action or statement to be showy and strange.


bookness

[…] implies a philosophical distinction between bookness and tableness. There is no more requirement to show why an experience cannot be a brain-state than there is to show why a book cannot be a table.

1969, Gerald Eugene Myers, Self: An Introduction to Philosophical Psychology, page 47:

(philosophy) The quality of being a book.


view from nowhere

en-noun

view from nowhere (plural views from nowhere)

(philosophy) A purely objective description of something, without any subjectivity.


reistic

en-adj

reistic (comparative more reistic, superlative most reistic)

more reistic (comparative)
most reistic (superlative)


Dark Learning

zh-l

玄學／玄学 (xuánxué)


Xuanxue

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 玄學／玄学 (xuánxué).

玄學／玄学 (xuánxué)

A metaphysical post-classical Chinese philosophy from the Six Dynasties (222-589) period, bringing together Daoist and Confucian beliefs through revision and discussion.


Sleeping Beauty problem

en-noun

Sleeping Beauty problem (plural Sleeping Beauty problems)

(decision theory) A kind of puzzle in which whenever an ideally rational epistemic agent is awoken from sleep, it has no memory of whether it has been awoken before. Upon being told that it has been woken once or twice according to the toss of a coin, once if heads and twice if tails, it is asked its degree of belief for the coin having come up heads.


bone apple tea

From a food photo uploaded on Facebook by Dunta Pickett on 1 August 2016, which was captioned “My BIRTHDAY dinner to myself...bone Apple tea.” It was screenshotted and posted on the Worldstar Hip Hop Facebook page and spread as a meme in a few days.

Whoever gets this car next is going to be pissed because the steering wheel is covered in oily dressing. Bone apple tea!

2016 November, Jesse Standing, “Review: Abandoned Salad”, in The Moot Times, University of Calgary, page 10, column 4:

He takes the other spoon, and we each dig out a bite of this gunk. I’m breathing through my mouth so I don’t have to smell so much of it, but all that means is I’m starting to taste it on the air instead. / “Ready?” Perry asks. / “Sure,” I say. “Bone apple tea.” / Perry laughs, and I hope there’s nothing called a bone apple that can be made into a tea, I’m just trying to be smartass while I can still talk without retching.

2017, L.A. Fields, “King of Fruits”, in Steve Berman, editor, His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica, Unzipped Books, →ISBN, page 93:

“Bone apple tea,” they say to each other as they grill chicken and saute broccoli.

2022 April 1, Good Boy, “The goodest boy”, in The Bull, volume 97, Searcy, Ark.: Harding University, page 4A, column 3:

(humorous) Misconstruction of bon appétit


open-textured

en-adj

open-textured (comparative more open-textured, superlative most open-textured)

more open-textured (comparative)
most open-textured (superlative)

(philosophy) evading a precise or holistic definition


open texture

Coined by Austrian philosopher Friedrich Waismann in 1945.

coin

(philosophy) A philosophical concept that refers to the universal possibility of imprecision in empirical statements.


Kylux

(Examples: how people feel about Reylo, how people perceive Kylux, etc.)

2016, "Dark Side of the Mind", quoted in Kimberly Leerkes, "Fandom As A Remixing Culture", thesis submitted to the University of Amsterdam, page 87

In May 2016, a month after TFA was available for legal download and purchase on DVD, Kylux was already the most popular pairing in the fandom with over two thousand stories; […]

2017 December, Cait Coker, Karen Viars, “Welcoming the Dark Side?: Exploring Whitelash and Actual Space Nazis in TFA Fanfiction”, in NANO: New American Notes Online, volume 12:

On the other hand, a handful of my Mutuals ship Kylux […]

2018, Indira J. C. Neill, "Tumblr as Platform Architecture, User Experience, and Interaction Artifacts", dissertation submitted to the University of Illinois at Chicago, page 102

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kylo Ren and Armitage Hux from Star Wars.


Stormpilot

Stephanie didn't immediately latch onto Stormpilot after her first viewing of The Force Awakens, but now sees the developing relationship as playing on classic romantic beats.

2016 February, “Stormpilot: The Breakout Couple Of 2015”, in Colorblock Magazine, page 13:

The popularity of Stormpilot as a slash pairing is grounded in canonical signifiers, as Andrew Wheeler (2016) writes: […]

2017, Anastasia Salter, Bridget Blodgett, Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, And Identity Politics, page 199:

The ambiguity act doesn't work as well for Boyega and Isaac, but The Rise of Skywalker appears to offer Stormpilot shippers (and you know who you are) no definitive reason to jump ship.

2019, André Hereford, “Forceful Finale”, in Metro Weekly, 16 December - 26 December 2019, page 39:

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


Bellarke

I ship Bellarke (Bellamy and Clarke from The 100) so hard.

2016, Kiara London, Kiss Cam, unnumbered page:

This was an especially touching scene because every fan wants Bellarke.

2018, Ainsley O'Quinn & Russ Upton, "New season of The 100 brings many changes", The Sentry (Jackson Preparatory School), May 2018, page 18

Two distinct communities coalesce around fans of Clexa and fans of Bellarke.

2019, Erin Kenny, “'Ship Wars' and the OTP: Narrating Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of The 100”, in Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark, editors, Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time, page 195:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Bellamy Blake and Clarke Griffin from The 100 novel series and its television adaptation.


Reylo

When Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out, the fandom found itself dividing across one really hard, bright line: the Reylos and the anti-Reylos.

2017 December 15, Ani Bundel, “More Than The Force Connects Kylo Ren & Rey In 'The Last Jedi' & It's Intense”, in Elite Daily:

And with the Reylos, rose the Anti-Reylos who argued that the ship was indicative of racism and perpetuated abusive relationship tropes.

2020, Victoria Song, "How Fandom Destroyed and Protected Me", Gizmodo Australia, 3 February 2021

She goes onto state that Reylos experienced harassment over the death of Kylo Ren, as well as inherently political harassment that included sexist and racist taunts.

2020, Alexandria P. Sutherland, "Star Wars, Parasocial Relationships and Breakups, and The Force...of Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Tennessee, pages 29-30

(fandom slang) A shipper of Rey and Kylo Ren.


Clexa

This year, in the truly perfect hour of television that was 3.03, Clexa progressed from adversaries to unbreakable partners.

2016 March 9, Vidya Srinivasan, “Reshop, Heda”, in The Tufts Daily, Tufts University, page 6:

Many fan videos in the Clexa fandom put the emphasis on the relationship between the two characters, aggregating scenes from different episodes.

2018, Mélanie Bourdaa, “A Strong Social Bond: Discussion, Debates and Friendship”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 394:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Clarke Griffin and Lexa from the television series The 100.


Johnlocker

As much as I dislike shipping people in real life, CumberBrealey/Beneloo/Cumberloo are my OTP.
(Come at me, Johnlockers!)

2014, "Hades", "On Benedict Cumberbatch", The Nerdwriter, February 2014, page 9

Since the Johnlockers won't call out others within their own ship, I will.

2018, Daneel, quoted in Katie Wilson, "Red Pillers, Sad Puppies, and Gamergaters: The State of Male Privilege in Internet Fan Communities", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 434

As a microcosmos, TJLCers and Johnlockers demonstrate that queer viewers can weaponize consumer culture to challenge essentialist stereotypes that still restrict what is socially expected and encouraged of individuals based on their biological gender, sexual preference, and mental health status.

2018, Diana W. Anselmo, "Gender and Queer Fan Labor on Tumblr: The Cast of BBC's Sherlock", Feminist Media Studies, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2018, page 96

(fandom slang) A shipper of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson from the television series Sherlock.


Initialism from the names Janeway and Seven.

In that sense, Seven transcends femininity herself (and J/7 transcends lesbian slash) because feminine sentimentality is insufficient.

1998 February 11, Emily Salzfass, “Re: Pokes at Antnests”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

I've just started a new Web site (still under construction) for J/7 fanfic and have posted my new story "Sensations" on there.

1999 May 17, Tenderware, “New Janeway/Seven Site!”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

Tigermoth wrote some really hot, interesting J/7 stories, and I hope that she continues to do so, and perhaps branches out into some longer pieces!

2006 March 30, Rocky, “ASC AWARDS Comment Digest # 71 VOY Stories”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kathryn Janeway and Seven of Nine from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.


Mystrade

The latter include Lestrade (as played by Graves) appreciation and fanfic sites [URLS redacted], a significant strand of (self-evidently, fanon/non-canon) ‘Mystrade’ slash activity, in which Lestrade is imagined to be in a romantic/sexual relationship, or even civil partnership, with Mycroft Holmes (played by Sherlock’s co-creator, Mark Gatiss) […]

2011 November, Claire Monk, “Heritage Film Audiences 2.0: Period Film Audiences and Online Fan Cultures”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 7, number 2, page 474:

It seems natural in the context of fandom that Mystrade and Wincest are important generic categories, or that Kirk and Spock is an entirely different fictional animal from Kirk/Spock.

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 361:

[…] whereas SailorChibi's Walking Together is labelled an 'AU' featuring 'Johnlock & mentions of Mystrade'.

2016, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions”, in Gabriele Griffin, editor, Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities, page 62:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade from the television series Sherlock.


TJLCer

Stalwart TJLCers were the only ones clever enough to have unearthed the plot and follow the trail of the imaginary breadcrumbs.

2017, Christopher Redmond, About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community, page 171:

TJLCers still believe that outing Sherlock and John as a romantic couple on worldwide television can propel ideological shifts in national attitudes and global awareness, resulting in broader social equality for everyday queer people.

2018, Diana W. Anselmo, "Gender and Queer Fan Labor on Tumblr: The Case of BBC's Sherlock", Feminist Media Studies, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2018, page 92

Treating a gay relationship as a puzzle that must be pursued by the clever viewers and hidden from "casuals" until the narrative reveal at the eleventh hour seems antithetical to the idea of normalized representation that TJLCers claim as the main reason they want Johnlock to be canon, […]

2019, E. J. Nielsen, “The Gay Elephant Meta In The Room: Sherlock And The Johnlock Conspiracy”, in Joseph Brennan, editor, Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities, page 91:

(Sherlock fandom slang) A proponent of The Johnlock Conspiracy (TJLC).


TJLC

The queer utopianism infusing TJLC fanworks is shaped by a strand of collective fan labor often dismissed by mainstream sources as self-indulgent and overemotional: that of protest, in this case against toxic heteronormativity.

2018, Diana W. Anselmo, "Gender and Queer Fan Labor on Tumblr: The Case of BBC's Sherlock", Feminist Media Studies, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2018, page 93

These expectations became confronted with the decision on the side of the screenwriters that angered many fans supporting the TJLC theory.

2018, Małgorzata Lisowska-Magdziarz, “Authors, Owners, Influencers, Entitled Fans And Ultimate Fanboys: TJLC Controversy And The Politics Of Media Content Creation”, in Tadej Pirc, editor, Participation, Culture and Democracy: Perspectives on Public Engagement and Social Communication, page 85:

Where TJLC differs from traditional Sherlockian fandom and fannish scholarship is in its insistence on a single correct reading of the text: […]

2019, E. J. Nielsen, “The Gay Elephant Meta In The Room: Sherlock And The Johnlock Conspiracy”, in Joseph Brennan, editor, Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities, page 83:

(Sherlock fandom slang) The Johnlock Conspiracy; a theory prevalent in Sherlock fandom before series four, which interpreted the show as having a strong queer subtext, and held that the showrunners intended an eventual romance between Sherlock and John.


Adlock

Adlock fans cite the episode "A Scandal in Belgravia" as evidence of Sherlock Holmes' enduring love for "the Woman," Irene Adler.

2016, Jennifer Phillips, Katharina Freund, “Engaging with 'Herself': Fandom and Authorship in the Age of Tumblr”, in Valerie Estelle Frankel, editor, Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience, page 36:

As you've probably gathered, I do not ship Johnlock. I can roll with pretty much any Sherlock ship, except that one and Adlock.

The ships most likely to be attacked are those which feature a male/female pairing such as Sherlolly, Adlock (Irene Adler/Sherlock), and Warstan (John Watson/Mary Morstan), […]

2019, E. J. Nielsen, “The Gay Elephant Meta In The Room: Sherlock And The Johnlock Conspiracy”, in Joseph Brennan, editor, Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities, pages 87–88:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler from the television series Sherlock.


Clintasha

There’s a lot of hate from the Clintasha crowd. It was never my intention that they were an item.

2015, Joss Whedon, quoted in Noelene Clark, "‘Avengers’ director plunges into Black Widow controversy", Pocono Record, 9 May 2015

Another example would be "Clintasha," the fan-coupling of Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff, who make a complete turnaround from their relationship in the first Avengers.

2015, Addie Bass & Gina Appleby, "Avengers Age of Ultron: Is It Worthy?", The Little Hawk (Iowa City High School), 2 June 2015, page A15

YaelLouder: All of your Clintasha fic is kind of fluffy.

2019, Katherine Locke, “Some Days You're The Sidekick; Some Days You're The Superhero”, in Katherine Locke, Laura Silverman, editors, It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Clint Barton (Hawkeye) and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Thorki

This book is not a work of fan fiction, nor a book of spells. There are no runes for casting nor Thorki weddings to attend.

2015, Pepi Valderrama, Geek Anthropology of Loki's Army, page 7:

The images of Thorki […] represent a range of implied possibilities between the characters--from romantic longings to more explicit imagery.

2015, Matthew Alan Cicci, "Turning The Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, And The Transformation Of The 'Comic Book' Superhero", dissertation submitted to Wayne State University, page 91

Some fans of the couple of Thorki are from a Marvel fan circle, which also belongs to the Western culture fan circles; however, some Asian culture fans will also be interested due to the fact that Thorki reflected a seme-uke couple pattern of a muscular and straightforward seme and a tsundere cunning uke.

2019, Nishang Li, "'Rotten Culture': From Japan to China", thesis submitted to the University of Victoria, pages 51-52

(fandom slang) The incestuous ship of adoptive brothers Thor and Loki from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Stony

The "Stony" fandom takes the comic remediation ship or genderswap and removes it from its aesthetic relationship by placing it within a new remediated work.

2013 July, Poe Johnson, “Cultural Memory as Fandom Ideology in the Remediated World”, in The Phoenix Papers, volume 1, number 2, page 51:

It tugged at my heartstrings with Steve's memories, as well as giving me so many Stony feels.

2013 July, “Fandoms Assemble 2013 Fanfic Awards”, in Fandoms Assemble, page 21:

The largest ships in the MCU are “Stucky” (Steve Rogers AKA Captain America and Bucky Barnes AKA the Winter Soldier) and “Stony” (Steve Rogers and Tony Stark AKA Iron Man).

2016, Olivia Riley, "Queerness and Emotion in Fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Minnesota, page 10

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Percabeth

Blend of Percy + Annabeth. In this case, "Percy" is short for Perseus.

Though Percabeth didn't spend much time in the spotlight in "The Blood of Olympus," what little I saw of their romance felt rather clichéd.

2014, Mei Baek, "'The Blood of Olympus'", tjTODAY (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology), 16 October 2014, page 11

Finishing the book with much dissapointment for the lack of Percabeth in The Lost Hero, I waited patiently for the 2nd book.

2014, Areeba Amer, "The Fangirl Who Waited", The GHS Torch (Greenhill Junior Classical League), November 2014, page 3

I should upload something new. Or even one of my more decent older pieces. I have a whole bunch I've photographed and saved on my phone. All my ships, straight-up kissing: Inej and Nina, Percabeth, a few original characters.

2018, Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase from the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles franchise.


Hinny

Below are two images of fan art which represents the Hinny ship.

2014, Zakia Jeewa, "Social Network Fandoms & Online Role-Playing: Harry Potter and The Vampire Diaries Fans on Twitter", thesis submitted to the University of KwaZulu-Natal, page 99

On the other hand, one of the ships I hate is Hinny, a.k.a. Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley.

2015 February 13, Rebecca Fartharly, “What are your favourite fictional ships?”, in inQuire, University of Kent, page 10:

And that's my not at all biased take on why Hinny are the perfect couple.

2017, Andrew, "Romance in HP: Hinny", HPReadathon, Issue 2, February 2017, page 2

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley of the Harry Potter series.


Merthur

The bromance between Merthur remains intact, and it was great to see Merlin get his own back by slapping the king.

2012, Jodie Tyley, “Merlin Series Five: Volume One”, in SciFiNow, number 74, page 73:

Thousands of Merlin/Arthur stories were uploaded to www.fanfiction.net, in addition to other fan sites dedicated to 'Merthur', as the pairing became known.

2015, Philippa Semper, “'Camelot must come before all else': Fantasy and Family in the BBC Merlin”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, page 123:

Given some viewers' objections to the presence of Gwen on Merlin, it is perhaps unsurprising that the most popular "ship" (fandom term for relationship) in the fandom is Merther—the undeniable connection between the young wizard and the monarch he serves so devotedly.

2019, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, page 96:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Merlin and Arthur Pendragon from the television series Merlin.


Wolfstar

From wolf + star: Remus Lupin is a werewolf; and Sirius Black is named after the dog star Sirius (Sirius Black is an animagus who turns into a dog).

Remus’ lycanthropy almost always features in Wolfstar fics precisely because it is his lycanthropy that brands his sexuality as disallowable.

2016, Jaquelin Elliott, “Becoming The Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Reclamation of the Werewolf in Slash Fandom”, in Revenant, number 2, page 99:

The continued enthusiasm demonstrated here alludes to the power SBP has within HP fandom: as Emmie describes it, SBP is “the cornerstone of the Wolfstar fandom” (“Shoebox Project”).

2018, Kasandra Arthur, "We Are Having All Kinds of Fun: Fluidity in Shoebox Project", thesis submitted to the University of Waterloo, page 142

Silveredglass, a reader and writer who primarily ships Drarry and Remus Lupin/Sirius Black or 'Wolfstar', found Harry Potter fandom through Tumblr.

2018, Emily E. Roach, “Polyjuice and Potterheads: The Changing Face of Fandom from LiveJournal to Tumblr”, in Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Remus Lupin and Sirius Black of the Harry Potter series.


Ichabbie

Much has been made of the sexual tension between "Ichabbie."

2014 October 2, Laura Prudom, “'Sleepy Hollow' Season 2: Tom Mison on 'Ichabbie,' Jealousy and the Battle with War”, in The Niles Bugle, page 23:

Many fan blog posts argued that writers of Sleepy Hollow betrayed its Ichabbie shippers through their refusal to fully consummate the relationship.

2017, Evan Jeremy Johnson, "But The Crowd Was Not Satisfied: Blackface Minstrelsy And Lynching As Fandoms Of The Remediated Black Body", thesis submitted to the University of Texas at Dallas, page 78

Fans who had enjoyed the dynamic of Abbie and Crane did not appreciate the re-introduction of Katrina, as she stifled their relationship in a number of ways, breaking up the Ichabbie dynamic for marital spats.

2020, Karen J. Tuthill-Jones, "Brains, Brawn, and Beguilement: Major Female Characters on FOX's Sleepy Hollow, in Cinematic Women, From Objecthood to Heroism: Essays on Female Gender (ed. Lisa V. Mazey), page 99

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills from the television series Sleepy Hollow.


H/G

Maybe its just my H/G shipping ;) but I think it'll be Ginny and Harry at the end of the series.

2001 July 12, David, “Re: The Order Of The Phoenix”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

I still, however, *despise* the H/G pairing.

2002 April 28, Lady_Nyx, “Re: Ron and hermoine”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

So many H/G and R/Hr shippers were high-fiving each other last Saturday, it was quite fun.

2005 July 21, Frank Secada, “Viking Ginny? (spoilers)”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):


Rumbelle

Many Rumbelle stories take place after Belle and Rumple have already undergone a terrible loss, using the hurt/comfort trope to show how they cope afterwards.

2014, Christa M. Baxter, "The Challenge of Happily Ever After: How Once Upon a Time Fanfic Fairy Tales Model Strategies for Ordinary Life Challenges", thesis submitted to Brigham Young University, page 19

We'd obviously be bummed to lose Giles Matthey as Rumbelle's adorably evil baby boy, but at least there's still some hope that the couple can get their baby back instead of missing out on his entire life.

2017, Lindsay Macdonald, "'Once Upon A Time': All Hope Is Not Lost For Gideon", TV Weekly (Magic Valley Times-News), 29 January - 4 February 2017, page 12

Fan websites indicate that the "Rumbelle" couple has become a fan-favorite specifically because viewers of the show relate to Rumple as an imperfect man and can identify with his rocky love relationship.

2019, Claudia Schwabe, Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Rumpelstiltskin and Belle from the television series Once Upon a Time.


Olitz

In the latest episode, "Like Father, Like Daughter," Olitz reunites after months apart while she was in hiding with Jake.

2014 October 24, Chloe Gilke, “The trouble with Olivia and Fitz”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 5:

What has also been a long-standing narrative from the point of view of fans is how Scandal has been profoundly silent on the issue of race, particularly in the portrayal of Olitz.

2019, Kavyta Kay, “#Olitz”, in Simone Adams, Kimberly R. Moffitt, Ronald L. Jackson, editors, Gladiators in Suits: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Scandal, page 187:

Olitz subverts 'post-race', liberal society's expectation of mono-racial intimacy based on an understanding of reproductive heterosexuality (Zack, 1993).

2019, Shirley Anne Tate, Decolonising Sambo: Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity, page 135:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Olivia Pope and Fitzgerald "Fitz" Grant from the television series Scandal.


multishipper

From multi- + shipper or multiship + -er.

He describes himself as a multishipper and proudly reblogged a post calling him the Captain of the Ichabbie ship.

2014, Angela Fazekas, "Queer And Unusual Space: White Supremacy In Slash Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Queen's University, page 120

In between confessionals, the JunexNick fandom operates as most multishipper (fans who ship a variety of couples all at once) fan pages do on Tumblr; […]

2018 March, Kristen J. Warner, “JunexNick: The Quietest Ship in the Handmaid Fandom”, in Communication Culture & Critique, volume 11, number 1, pages 199–200:

Ruby advises any new fans to find the multishipper spaces within the fandom. “There you can ship whoever you want. You don’t have to be in shipper wars or anything like that.”

2019, Lauren Rouse, "The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 48

(fandom slang) A person who ships multiple pairings within the same fandom, especially ones featuring the same character.


R/Hr

Initialism from the names Ron and Hermione.

For what it's worth, the vast majority of the fandom picks up on R/Hr over H/Hr.

2003 September 30, Tim Behrendsen, “Re: My input on Ha/Hr”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

And what would Lavender have done to deserve this, aside from be an obstacle to R/Hr 'shippers?

2005 September 17, Louis Epstein, “Re: HBP Chapter 22 re-read”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


H/H

Initialism from the names Harry and Hermione.

My daughter was finishing GOF & she was like, "Look! Here is the foreshadowing of the H/H relationship!"

2001 December 28, CrimsonRiver, “From GOF, a H/H relationship set up”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Also I DON'T think like some H/H shippers that kiss on the cheek was a 'sign'.

2002 September 7, Tom, “Re: Poll: Ron with Hermione or Harry with Hermione?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

IMO H/H have been built as being compatible over the series while R/Hr are shown as volatile.

2003 March 24, Meliss9900, “Re: Re: Hermione”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


R/H

Note that Sugarquill's philosophy is basically that Ron and Hermione belong together (although not all the stories are R/H), so if you happen to be a Harry/Hermione 'shipper' it won't quite fit your requirements.

2002 February 22, Pen, “Re: FanFics you liked”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Jedi Boadicea is an R/H person, but that aspect doesn't take centre stage in her stories; she keeps in mind that the characters are still school-kids, so what little romance there is is^([sic]) always age-appropriate.

2002 November 13, Lisa Hicks, “Re: atmosphere or clue?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

My only criteria is I'm an R/H shipper so any story that doesn't have that pairing doesn't interest me.

2005 April 20, mis...@mi.com, “Fanfiction Recommendatios”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):


Snily

A classic example is Jily (James/Lily) vs. Snily (Snape/Lily), which even had its own debate at LeakyCon.

2013 October, “Why Victoria (@timelinenargles) Keeps Calm And Ships Jily”, in Fandoms Assemble, page 18:

"If Snily had been a thing, there would have been no Harry Potter."

2014, Alice Oseman, Solitaire, unnumbered page:

The acronym OTP (One True Pairing) is used by many fans to emphasize their favourite ships ('I ship Snarry, but Snily is my OTP').

2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, page 279:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Severus Snape and Lily Potter of the Harry Potter series.


Jily

For example, Rattlesnakeroot writes "I, for one, am glad to see "Lames" or "Jily" fall from grace and crash to pieces like the plaster saints they are. I'm so sick of the romantic picture of them that keeps permeating the various sites. *gag*" [11].

2014, Zoe Alderton, “'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, page 224:

Be prepared for some adorable Jily fluff towards the end haha.

2017, Meg, "Fanfic Recommendation", HPReadathon, October 2017, page 9

(fandom slang) The ship of characters James Potter and Lily Potter of the Harry Potter series.


a-spec

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From a- (from asexual and aromantic) + spec, a clipping of spectrum.

“Aspecs [those on the asexual spectrum]^([sic]) can have relationships with anyone. We’re not limited to being exclusively with other aspecs…. There always needs to be communication and establishing boundaries regardless of the relationship. […]” – M

2022 April 15, Timaree Schmit, “Reader question: Asexual dating”, in Philadelphia Weekly:

This is why events like the Indigenous Aces panel and articles by a-specs from marginalised backgrounds are so important within the larger conversation around a-spec issues.

2023, Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 29:

A person on the asexual spectrum and/or aromantic spectrum.


Malfoycest

Unlike Weasleycest, which has spread across the fandom like kudzu, Malfoycest has always been more difficult to find, and its writers a bit more secretive.

2007, Catherine Tosenberger, "Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction On The Internet", dissertation submitted to the University of Florida, page 151

The most popular pairing within Malfoycest is Lucius/Draco.

2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 93

Further, it is striking that with the exception of Malfoycest (Draco/Lucius, Draco/Narcissa, Draco/Scorpius) and the Pottercest pairings involving Harry and his future children (23 out of 62), the majority of incest stories take place between siblings (875 out of 1,065—82 percent).

2014, Vera Cuntz-Leng, “Twinship, incest, and twincest in the Harry Potter universe”, in Transformative Works and Cultures, volume 17:

(fandom slang) Any ship involving members of the Malfoy family from the Harry Potter series in an incestuous relationship.


Grindeldore

The day after the release of Deathly Hallows, the community Grindeldore appeared on Livejournal.com. Dedicated to "[f]anworks and discussion on Grindelwald/Dumbledore," the community became a locus for fanfiction, fan art, and fan essays ("meta") on the relationship.

2008, Catherine Tosenberger, "'Oh my God, the Fanfiction!': Dumbledore's Outing and the Online Harry Potter Fandom", Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2008, page 201:

After all, it was immediately after the seventh book release at Prophecy, a fan convention in Toronto, that I first encountered the idea of a "Grindeldore" pairing.

2010, Joel Meredith, “Our Business: Why I'm Glad J. K. Rowling Outed Albus Dumbledore”, in Sharon K. Goetz, editor, Terminus: Collected Papers on Harry Potter, 7-11 August 2008, page 137:

The circle on the front poster of the calendar binds Grindeldore together.

2018 September, S. P. Sipal, “Did Dumbledore And Grindelwald Make An Unbreakable Vow As Teens?”, in The Rowling Library Magazine, number 21, page 24:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises.