reverse isekai

en-noun

reverse isekai (countable and uncountable, plural reverse isekai or reverse isekais)

reverse isekai (plural)
reverse isekais (plural)

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is a reverse-isekai show? That's actually a really cool concept

2017 January 22, @alltsun_nodere, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Idea for a reverse Isekai where tired/angry space alien gets to live life as a humble Japanese salaryman observing other humans

2018 October 26, @blackbookalpha, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

Thinking intensely about the reverse isekai story that lives rent free in my head where a depressed writer gives up on her novel and the protagonist and the villain lose their powers so they find a way to travel to the author's world to make her finish her book

2020 December 29, @OccultasHQ, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

The anime is a “cute girls doing cute things” spin on the reverse isekai subgenre and follows a group of two angels and two demons sent to Earth, particularly Gabriel, who arrives on Earth in search of knowledge.

2023 October 18, Maham Arsalan, “10 Best Reverse Isekai Anime to Watch Right Now”, in Comic Book Resources:CBR, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

Quite a number of reverse isekai anime start with a human summoning a being from another world, usually to ask for some assistance. So, in terms of premise, Dropkick On My Devil! is about as predictable as they come; however, the show is anything but typical.

2024 February 13, Mark Sammut, “Best Reverse Isekai Anime Of All Time, Ranked”, in Game Rant, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

One of the biggest hits of the Winter 2024 anime season was Solo Leveling, a show that took the reverse-isekai formula and gave it a dark twist.

2024 April 5, Trent Cannon, “Solo Leveling season 2 release date: Crunchyroll set to Solo Leveling: Arise from the Shadows when it airs - but when?”, in Popverse, archived from the original on 2024-04-10:

(Japanese fiction) A subgenre of isekai where people from a fantasy or fictional world are transported into modern-day Earth, rather than the other way around.


man versus time

(literature) The perpetual struggle of a protagonist to overcome persistent difficulties or obstacles.


swip

(chiefly manga) A generic sound for movement, or for something appearing.


lab lit

lab lit (usually uncountable, plural lab lits)

(literature) a genre of fiction, distinct from science fiction, that centers on realistic portrayals of scientists and science as a profession.


kyaa

(chiefly manga) An expression of surprise or dismay.


time compression

time compression (countable and uncountable, plural time compressions)

(science fiction) The concept of condensing all of time and space into a single moment, or a singularity.


time belt

I've set it for the year dot, as it were. I wonder how long ago that is? A million years? A billion? They will put the time belt on the creature and press the little button.

1997, Robert Rankin, Nostradamus Ate My Hamster, page 309:

Lancaster explains to Kensington that Kensington must put on the Time Belt—it's set to take him back to the moment of the assassination and will automatically merge him back into the proper time stream.

1999, J. Neil Schulman, Profile in Silver: And Other Screenwritings:

The time belt was pretty much the same as all the others he'd worn, but it had no settings.

2013, Jack L. Chalker, Downtiming the Night Side:

(science fiction) A belt that is worn to enable the wearer to travel through time.


time trace

time trace (countable and uncountable, plural time traces)

(science fiction) A temporal phenomenon in which a creature is trapped in the same place, but in a different second of time leaves behind a palpable trace.


time stop

(science fiction) A process by which an object is stopped in time.


time integration

(science fiction) The process of extracting versions of a person from a different time period or a timeline and integrating them into a single person.


harem ending

(manga, manhwa) The ending of a hentai or pornhwa in which the protagonist ends up partnered with all or several of the potential love interests encountered in the story.


uwaa

(manga) Whoa! Wow! An exclamation of shock.


dooligah

(folklore) In Australian Aboriginal folklore, a giant hairy man said to abduct children.


mindrape

mindrape (countable and uncountable, plural mindrapes)

(science fiction, fantasy) Alternative form of mind rape


mindrape

en-verb

mindrape (third-person singular simple present mindrapes, present participle mindraping, simple past and past participle mindraped)

mindrapes (present singular third-person)
mindraping (participle present)
mindraped (participle past)
mindraped (past)

(transitive, science fiction, fantasy) Alternative form of mind rape


mind rape

en-noun

mind rape (countable and uncountable, plural mind rapes)

"Memeticists exploit the anomalous to change how people see the world," Del Olmo continued. "We make them believe things which aren't true, when that's convenient for us. We make them believe things that are true, when bad actors have occluded their vision. We make them forget things. We make them see things which aren't there. We make them see things which are there, which they nevertheless can't see. We do it with imagery, with words, with sounds. It's the parascience of suggestion." He was really getting into the speech, gesturing with increasing excitement and constantly having to push his rectangular spectacles back up the bridge of his Roman nose.

2022 September 22, HarryBlank, “Mind Over Matter”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

(science fiction, fantasy) Nonconsensual intrusion into one's mind; the reading, modification, or control, by another, of one's thoughts or memories without one's consent, especially if forcible.


mind rape

en-verb

mind rape (third-person singular simple present mind rapes, present participle mind raping, simple past and past participle mind raped)

mind rapes (present singular third-person)
mind raping (participle present)
mind raped (participle past)
mind raped (past)

"You... you mindraped my boyfriend!" "I am sorry."

2011 December 5, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 2024-05-25:

(transitive, science fiction, fantasy) To read, modify, or control (especially forcibly) another person's thoughts or memories without their consent.


grey alien

(science fiction or ufology) An archetypical humanoid alien, usually described as having grey skin, elongated, hairless, sexless features, and a large head with bulbous black eyes; chiefly associated with flying saucers, alien abductions and conspiracy theories relating to cover-ups by the United States government, such as Area 51.


nightfulness

He feels such delightfulness, stay out all-nightfulness, may I get tightfulness, / Which none can explain.

1894 April 20, chapter XIX, in A New England Woman, The Socrates Publishing Company, page 133:

They had thought themselves / in Hawaii when suddenly the pines, / trembling with nightfulness, / shook them out of their sibyllance.

1967 [1957], Frank O'Hara, “Romanze, or The Musical Students”, in Meditations in an Emergency, 2nd edition, Grove Press, page 20:

“And as this nightfulness appears to thin with distance, it should be entirely possible to pinpoint its epicenter? I find myself very much inclined to agree, Picnic. […]”

2016 September 20, Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night, Tom Doherty Associates, page 163:

Tonight the crescent moon is on its back / facing the darkness and I know that feeling / of nightfulness and the half ring it leaves / like part of a cupmark on a walnut table […]

2017, Julia McCarthy, “A Stab in the Dark”, in All the Names Between, Brick Books, page 5:

(rare, chiefly poetry) The state of being nightful.


neurolizer

Serg's left hand reached for the neurolizer at the back of his battlesuit.

1996, Tracy Hickman, Requiem of Stars, page 38:

If Justin had known what a neurolizer was he probably would've joined the fray, which would have given the assailant an easy couple of seconds to take a few more shots.

2010, Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin, The Unincorporated Man - Volume 1, page 178:

One of the thugs grabs Vulpina's arms and lifts her up from her seat while the other henchman uses a neurolizer to stun Jorrim.

2011, J. Edward Parrott, Planet X: The Annunaki Wars, page 168:

"I learn in a few years. It's complicated." said Therese as she went and snuck out into the front room and took her mom's keys, grabbed the neurolizer from the back of the Cuckoo clock in the hallway , and came back and helped Kara sneak out on her injured leg and crutches .

2023, Clinton Armer, Space-Girl Michelle #3, Legends Never Die:

(science fiction) A hand-held weapon that disrupts the nervous system of a victim in some way.


verbivocovisual

Coined by James Joyce in the experimental novel Finnegans Wake. Perhaps verbi- (from "verbiage"?) + Latin vocō ("to name") + visual, possibly influenced by Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry. Now frequently associated with Concrete poetry following its use by Augusto de Campos and other concrete poets in the mid-to-late 1950s.

In the view of the formalists, Italian futurism epitomized all that poetics should work against. This assessment, directed specifically at Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who visited Saint Petersburg and Moscow in February 1914, indicates the formalists' unwillingness to acknowledge the many poetic and artistic innovations shared by the Russian and Italian futurists. In the realm of Russian futurist book art and its Italian futurist analogue—the parole-in-libertà (words-in-freedom)—poetic language was transformed by the elimination of grammar and syntax, the experimentation with new arrangements of words and letters on the page, and the highlighting of language for its sonic expressivity. Both Russian futurist book art and the parole-in-libertà incorporated verbal, visual, and sonic elements into their art forms, although the Russians ventured much further into the verbivocovisual than did the Italians.

2016, Nancy Perloff, Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art, The Getty Research Institute, →ISBN, page 68:

Alicia Genovese details very well the definition of avant-garde Brazilian concretist poetry of the 1960s. She did this through a Joycean neologism by which poetry was verbivocovisual in a synthesis of materials with which the poem operates: the verb (the uses of language), the sound (including the rhythm), and the space (the visual). [...] The play with language(s), the mixing of registers and working with space (large blank spaces between words), the cutting off of words like dance steps, and the androgynous enunciation "rió [...]" from Poem 39, are there in order to tense (crispar) the expectations, those of the representation and reception, and to tell us that there are neither final nor definitive statements/utterances.

2016, Martins, Laura M, “Per-verse Latin American Women Poets”, in Rodríguez, Ileana, Szurmuk, Mónica, editors, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 518:

We saw that the verbal, visual and hearing aspects together help to give a more genuine and relevant significance to the popular symbolism. In some frames, if we focus only on the verbal elements and constructions, we are not able to identify any carnivalization, for example. But by observing the three dimensions together as one, verbivocovisually, we see that the background sound gives dialogues a more grotesque or carnivalesque sense. Lastly, we conclude that popular symbolisms are embedded into the scene through the verbivocovisual language. These symbols have as their main goal to create a distance, a break from the real world within the narrative. At the same time, the plot reminds us a great deal of the real world, both anchored in the fight for power.

2023, Pais, Ana Carolina, “The Symbology of Popular Culture in Game of Thrones: Carnivalization and Tyrion's Wedding Party”, in Álvarez-Ossorio, Alfonso, Lozano, Fernando, Soldevila, Rosario Moreno, Rosillo-López, Cristina, editors, Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities, Vol. 1: Time, Space and Culture, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 239:

(poetry) Composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.

Augusto de Campos
Concrete poetry
Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
experimental novel


multiversally

en-adv

multiversally (comparative more multiversally, superlative most multiversally)

more multiversally (comparative)
most multiversally (superlative)

The mission is critical but need not be rushed. The storm has been brewing for several weeks, and will not reach multiversally devastating proportions for a few months.

1980, TSR, Frank Mentzer, Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition: The Immortal Storm Complete, Rainbow Communications, →ISBN, page 25:

I have no knowledge of any Project 616,” I say. "I can only conjecture. Let me think.. .'616' is the multiversally agreed designature of this Universe.”

2014, Dan Abnett, Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Steal the Galaxy!: An Original Novel of the Marvel Universe, Marvel Worldwide, →ISBN, page 148:

Our answer: Well, duh! Multiversally, baby.

2016, Linda Varsell Smith, Star Stuff: A Soul-Splinter Experiences the Cosmos, Rainbow Communications, →ISBN, page 25:

(rare, physics, science fiction, fantasy, cosmology) In a multiversal manner.


self-sustenance

We are all for utility; and it would be ‘well that it should be so, if, like the boar of the forest, which delves up the flower to get at the root, we had no instincts beyond those of self-sustenance. But, as we have the immortal power of imagination, we are bound to provide nutriment for that celestial part of us, not less than for that which we hold in common with the brutes.

1830, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1830-02: Volume 27, Issue 162, Blackwood Pillans and Wilson, page 262:

This and other institutions have considered these questions anxiously and ceaselessly. They have endeavored to shape their plans of education and training for the future good, and, as far as possible, to secure the self-sustenance of their pupils.

1832, Perkins School for the Blind, Annual Report, Charles B. Slack, page 15:

The propensities have all reference to self-sustenance, self-gratification, or self-aggrandizement, and do not give rise to a single feeling of disinterested love or regard for the happiness of other beings. Even the domestic affections, wThen acting independently of the moral sentiments, prompt us to seek only a selfish gratification, without regard to the welfare of the beings who afford it.

1842, George Combe, Moral Philosophy, W. H. Colyer, page 168:

The enormous expense of supporting fourteen hundred persons — about one-five-hundredth part of the whole population of this commonwealth — in a state of idiocy : and 2d, the motives of humanity, to give, if possible, to these wretched creatures some idea of responsible life, some means and power of self-sustenance, and some self-respect.

1849, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Charles B. Slack, page 440:

When Sir Peregrine asked her whether he should seat her on the sofa, she slowly picked herself up, and, with her head still crouching toward the ground, placed herself where she before had been sitting. He had been afraid that she would have fainted, but she was not one of those women whose nature easily admits of such relief as that. Though she was always pale in color and frail-looking, there was within her a great power of self-sustenance. She was a woman who with a good cause might have dared any thing.

1850, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine, Harper & Brothers, page 640:

(physics, rare, fantasy, science fiction, biology) The independent sustenance of oneself, such as not requiring much oxygen to breathe or food to eat and liquids to drink like average species.


meatbrain

Installed on meatbrains whose habituation to computer-mediated activities has made them perilously vulnerable to infection by aggressive memes, the 'Babel' virus corrupts and overwrites the deep structures of human language, thereby 'crashing' the mind, and civilization with it.

2013, Joshua Raulerson, Singularities: Technoculture, Transhumanism, and Science Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 199:

The fact that programming languages often resemble English words like body or if is a convenient accommodation for our puny human meatbrains, which are much better at remembering commands that look like words we already know.

2019 April 8, Gretchen McCulloch, “Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-15:

(chiefly science fiction) A biological brain (as opposed to an artificial or man-made one).


object head

(fiction) A humanoid character with an object for a head.


-pody

From Ancient Greek -ποδία (-podía) from πούς (poús, “foot”).

(poetry) A unit or line consisting of a specified number of metrical feet


water sprite

(folklore) A general term for an elemental spirit associated with water, said to be able to breathe water or air and sometimes is able to fly.


gentry bush

(Ireland, folklore) A thorny bush, especially a hawthorn.


stim pack

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His father said, “Look, son, you're shaky. Sit down, take a stim pack. I got to deal with this right now.”

1983, Gregory Benford, Against Infinity, Timescape Books, page 117:

Meds, he thought, need meds. Shut off the damn pain. Got to grab a few stim packs.

2009, Matthew Costello, Doom 3: Maelstrom, Pocket Books, page 49:

The alien chose a stim pack from the kit. “This one, I believe.” He pressed it against the dying soldier.

2013, Kevin J. Anderson, “Comrades in Arms”, in Five by Five, WordFire Press, page 63:

Given how much you’ll be using Slow Mode, you can basically think of this Perk as picking up a few extra Stim Pack charges. In other words, it’s incredibly powerful.

2023 May 1, Matthew Byrd, “Jedi Survivor: Where to Find the Most Powerful Perks”, in Den of Geek!:

(science fiction, video games) A medicine, device, or similar item used to restore health or to relieve fatigue or pain.


mind break

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(fiction, chiefly pornography) Dramatic loss of rational thought after excessive sexual abuse.


airsuit

... and in a paroxysm of fury clawed at the convict's airsuit as though he could rip the fabric apart with his bare hands.

1951, Martin Greenberg (editor), Travelers of Space, Volume 7, page 122:

Opening the forward hatch, he winched down the little platform flyer, loaded aboard a spare airsuit and spare tanks of oxygen, and without further ceremony set out for Thumbnail Gulch

1964, Jack Vance, The Star King, page 130:

He stopped removing his airsuit and pulled it back on again, all but the helmet, which he left lying on the ground.

2013, Gordon R. Dickson, The Pritcher Mass:

Spacemen call it an “airsuit liner” because it is made to fit under an airsuit and is padded and reinforced at the friction points.


archdivinity

One myth asserts that it was first used in designating the archdivinity of Yorubaland.

2004, Philip M. Peek, Kwesi Yankah, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia, page 833:

(theology, rare, religion, fantasy, science fiction) A chief or reigning divinity, particularly in a polytheistic system.


starline

At the gate terminals that serviced the various commercial passenger starlines, thousands of beings—humanoid and non—went about their business laboring in numerous capacities to keep the port operating smmothly, cleanly, and safely.

2007, Cory Williams, The Taking of Cyndriel's Hope, page 14:

Passengers transshipping to other starlines should go to the nearest routing desk at once.

2011, Robert Silverberg, The Silent Invaders:

These starlines are integral to the megacorporate business model, used for both transportation of raw materials and finished goods for all of the businesses within the corporate group.

(science fiction) A company that flies commercial starships.


mojo hand

(African-American, spirituality, folklore) A small flannel bag containing one or more magical items.

African-American; spirituality; African-American; spirituality


slow-burn

en-adj

slow-burn (comparative more slow-burn, superlative most slow-burn)

more slow-burn (comparative)
most slow-burn (superlative)

Clarke and Lexa's slow-burn romance—and the fan fiction that Vi devoured about it —led to her joining Tumblr and starting to write her own fanfic.

2018, Jessica Spotswood, The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls, unnumbered page:

Since most respondents who prefer slow-burn fics are on the asexual spectrum, this is not surprising, as they are less likely to desire sexual experiences with others in general.

2018, Lindsay Mixer, "'And Then They Boned': An Analysis Of Fanfiction And Its Influence On Sexual Development", thesis submitted Humboldt State University, page 48

Slow burn fics, for instance, can go as far as having seventy thousand words before the character pairing even interacts.

2020, Shania O'Brien, "The horny POV: Evolution of modern fanfiction", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 5, Semester 5 (2020), page 18

(idiomatic) Emerging or unfolding slowly or gradually.

(fiction, fandom slang, of a romantic relationship) Developing slowly over the course of the story.


cyberprep

From cyber- + prep, as a response to cyberpunk.

Cyberprep is one answer to the Cyberpunk movement, a peachy keen one.

1987 May 1, Mark L. Blackman, APA-Filk, number 34, published 1987 April 23:

The cyberprep movement (such as it is, ha ha) takes as its motto: "Whatever you do, remember, be polite".

1987 September 27, Laurence R. Brothers, “Early Cyberpunk?”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet):

Cyberprep is thematically more optimistic, a broad difference expressed in small changes in the text, such as the likelihood chat body modification in a cyberprep work is done for the sake of aesthetics, rather than function or need. Put simply, cyberprep offers “a slick, clean, rosy view of the future to contrast cyberpunk's dirty, grim dystopias” (Bell 4).

2014, Tanya R. Cochran, Sherry Ginn, Paul Zinder, editors, The Multiple Worlds of Fringe: Essays on the J.J. Abrams Science Fiction Series, McFarland & Company, Inc., pages 156-157:

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction which, like cyberpunk, focuses on technological advancements, but presents life as utopian and leisure-driven rather than gritty and dangerous (as in cyberpunk).


super deformed

Borrowed from Japanese スーパーデフォルメ (sūpādeforume), from スーパー (sūpā, “super-”) + デフォルメ (deforume, “stylistic distortion”).

ja-r

(anime, manga) In Japanese caricature, drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads.


Oldspeak

From old + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Standard English
Standard English#English


Selenian

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


Perditean

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Perdita.


Mabian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Queen Mab.


Rosalindian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Rosalind.


Julietian

(literature) Of or relating to the character Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.


Cressidian

(literature) Of or relating to the Chaucerian and Shakespearean character Cressida.


Stephanonian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Stephano.


Calibanian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Caliban.


Setebosian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Setebos.


Prosperonian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Prospero.


Biancan

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Bianca.


Ferdinandian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Ferdinand.


Margaretian

/ˌmɑːrɡəˈrɛtiən/

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Margaret.


Sycoraxian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Sycorax.


Desdemonan

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Desdemona.


steamfunk

Blend of steampunk + funk. Popularized by the 2013 short story anthology Steamfunk! co-edited by Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade.

By reimagining the past, Nisi Shawl’s steamfunk novel “Everfair” soars towards a feminist, afrofuturist vision of liberational technology.

2016 November 19, Ida Yoshinaga, Lynette James, “Labors of Hope and Liberation: Nisi Shawl’s Steamfunk Novel “Everfair””, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that combines elements of steampunk with a focus on Black culture and Afrofuturism.


hackware

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(computing, chiefly science fiction) Software used for hacking (circumventing security measures).


clurichaun

The residents of a house would leave offerings for the clurichaun, who sing in Gaelic with enchantingly beautiful voices. Related to leprechauns, clurichauns are house faeries who specialize in caring for and protecting wine and beer cellars.

2012, Sirona Knight, Wiccan Spell A Night, Kensington Publishing, unnumbered page:

2016, Keith B. Darrell, Flashbacks: Fangs & Fur, Book 1, Amber Book Company, unnumbered page,
"Clurichauns are Dark Fae cousins of leprechauns," Aurae explained. "Unlike their Seelie Court cousins, the clurichauns drink to excess and are seldom sober. But despite always being drunk, the clurichauns are impeccably groomed and well-dressed... although they can be a bit surly."

(Irish folklore) A mischievous, potentially malicious fairy, akin to the leprechaun, that greatly loves drinking and tends to haunt breweries, pubs and wine cellars.


puppygirl

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(Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who has a dog's ears, tail, or other canine characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.


iyashikei

Borrowed from Japanese 癒(いや)し系(けい) (iyashikei).

(Japanese fiction) A genre of slice of life fiction, portraying characters living out peaceful lives in calming environments, intended to have a healing effect on the audience.


shuttlebay

From shuttle + bay, the word originally appeared in Star Trek, but has since appeared in a variety of other science-fiction and fantasy contexts.

SET THE SHUTTLECRAFT'S LOCATION TO THE SHUTTLEBAY;

1978, Roger Garrett, The Complete Star Ship: A Simulation Project, Dilithium Press, page 99:

[…] human shapes could be seen using floaters to shift containers from building to shuttlebay and vice versa.

1980, Alan Dean Foster, Cachalot, Ballantine Books, page 31:

The shuttlebay workers were gathered in front of the intranet screen, waiting for news.

2005, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowel The Opal Deception, page 200:

(science fiction) A part of a starship in which space shuttles are kept.


xenoarcheological

en-adj

xenoarcheological (comparative more xenoarcheological, superlative most xenoarcheological)

more xenoarcheological (comparative)
most xenoarcheological (superlative)

Penetrating scans have revealed large numbers of hollow, unpowered objects with dimensions of 3.14 by 12.56 by 28.26 meters circulating in the equatorial cloud bands. These objects appear to have "sails" or "wings" attached, allowing them to be borne aloft by Anjea's winds. While they are too deep to be reached for study, popular conjecture in xenoarcheological circles holds that they are "coffins" of an ancient race who laid their dead to rest in the gas giant.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2: Normandy Crash Site (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Anjea:

(science fiction) Of or pertaining to xenoarchaeology.


foxboy

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(fiction) A male fictional character who has a fox's ears, tail, or other fox-like characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.


foxgirl

/ˈfɔksˌɡɜːl/

/ˈfɔksˌɡɜɹl/

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(fiction) A female fictional character who has a fox's ears, tail, or other fox-like characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.


ghost bullet

People believe that a beast shoots "ghost bullets" when they ford a stream in Sihch'uan at any time except the winter months .

1968, Wolfram Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, page 195:

The leaves were used in the removal of ghost bullets " (supernatural objects that were shot into people by ghosts).

Pushing Teddy off, ignoring the part of him that mourned the loss—not the time, dumbass, not the time, ghosts were kind of a big fucking deal—he scrambled to his knees and looked at where the ghost had tried to put a ghost bullet in his brain.

"Somebody shot the doctor," the big police sergeant said. "It wasn't a ghost bullet; it was lead.

It was a ward against ghosts, but he was pretty sure it wasn't going to stop a ghost bullet.

2017, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors, page 105:

He ain't shootin' ghost bullets, neither. Here's his slug.

2020, Kenneth Robeson, The Squeaking Goblin, page 66:

(folklore or fantasy) A supernatural bullet that wounds or kills a person, especially one that is shot by a supernatural assailant.


xenogenetics

(science fiction) A fictional science, concerned with the study of genetic makeup of extraterrestrial species.


non-Newtonian drive

(science fiction) A device that can generate thrust without accelerating matter in the opposite direction.


imbunche

(folklore) In Chilote folklore, a deformed humanoid monster that protects the entrance to a warlock's cave.


toyol

(folklore) An undead infant in Indonesian and Malay folklore, typically invoked as a helper by black magic.


inumimi

From Japanese 犬(いぬ)耳(みみ) (inumimi), from 犬(いぬ) (inu, “dog”) + 耳(みみ) (mimi, “ear”).

(Japanese fiction) A humanoid fictional character who possesses dog ears and/or tail.


magnet play

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Ratchet did the mech a favor and didn’t look at him while he recovered. He turned the seed magnet around in his pliers instead, examining it. […] ¶ “You should get a spotter if you’re going to experiment with magnets,” he said, once he figured Jazz was halfway to calm again. […] “Look, I’ve done magnet play, I’m not judging, but this thing is too powerful for how small it is. You’re lucky it didn’t get into your energon system.”

2023 March 27, neveralarch, “A Miracle Opened Wide”, in Archive Of Our Own (fan fiction), archived from the original on 2024-08-08:

Are nipple piercings magnetic?? That would be so fun if they were... imagine magnet play 😵💫

2023 December 13, @mementoviviere, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-11-05:

(BDSM, science fiction) Any sexual activity involving magnets.


archemperor

To the most reverend, reverend, reverend and reverend, princes and lords, Mr. Albrecht, cardinal priest, archbishop in Mainz and Magdeburg, primate; Mr. Hermann, archbishop in Cologne; Mr. Johann Ludewig, elected archbishop in Trier 2c.; Ludwig, Count Palatine of the Rhine; Joachim, Margrave of Brandenburg, of the Holy Roman Empire through Germany, Italy, and France Archchancellors, Archtruchsesses, and Archemperors, and Princes; Mr. Ernest, Archbishop in Salzburg 2c., and Mr. Wilhelm, bishop in Strasbourg; Wilhelm and Ludwig, brothers, dukes in Upper and Lower Bavaria 2c., Wilhelm, dukes in Julich and Cleve 2c., deputized and appointed princes to the appointed conversation at Worms 2c., S. gracious princes and lords. 1)

1901, Martin Luther, Dr. Martin Luthers Sämmtliche Schriften, Volume 17, Superintendent of Documents, pages 398-399:

You can become Grand Emperor. Then Archemperor.

2017 May 7, loonyphoenix, “I was excited for a second”, in reddit.com:

Apart from going into titles that describe a being itself rather than assigning it a 'rank' (ex.: god, observer, master, etc.), I think you'll pretty much hit the ceiling at "Archemperor". After that, you may have to rely on your own creative etymology skills!

2021 November 1, LastFormorian, PETBOTOSRS, “Rulers with "arch" in their name”, in reddit.com:

(fantasy, science fiction, very rare) A supreme emperor.


hypercannon

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"You'll have to use the hypercannon", the professor answered.

1994, Dina Anastasio, Virtual Troopers: Virtual Reality Magician, Price Stern Sloan, →ISBN, page 136:

Notice that this law also states that we cannot hope to achieve superluminal (faster than light) speeds with a hypercannon mounted on a relativistic spaceship.

2005, John F. Hawley, Katherine A. Holcomb, Foundations of Modern Cosmology, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 193:

Once I realize what I am looking, I have some doubts that this hypercannon is going to be any use to us.

2014, Cynthia Green, Scott Green, GunKnight, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, page 237:

(science fiction, video games, rare, weaponry, fantasy) An extraordinarily powerful, superior cannon.


gaslight romance

en-noun

gaslight romance (countable and uncountable, plural gaslight romances)

(literature) A subgenre of fantasy and historical fiction that combines Gothic elements with a Victorian or Edwardian setting.


Arceism

(video games, anime, manga) Fictional religion in the Pokémon franchise, seems to be based off Abrahamic religions and Shintoism.