Why not expand the vocabulary we have at our disposal? I know psychedelics, especially DMT, have opened my linguistics up quite a bit over the past few years.

Wordsmiths?

Just post a word, followed by the pronunciation, followed by the definition/sentence usage.

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Great thread! Let's start with:

Vocabulize. Voe-CAB-you-lies.

To make up words that generally will make sense, even if they are not in any official dictionary.

This thread is for the purpose of vocabulizing.

intransigent

(in-TRAN-si-jent)

adjective: Unwilling to compromise, especially from an extreme position.


"Two individual remain intransigent in their views."

This is a great thread idea. I get so tired of drug users saying, "Wow man that was amazing . . . . it's beyond words dude!" Yeah, okay, . . . . maybe. I have always said that a good PSYCHONAUT, among other things, works their entire life to expand their working vocabulary. Not just learn new words but use them.

No need to show off or to be sill like Edgar Allen Poe. This way to the egress, right? No, that is not the idea imo. The idea is expanding one's ability to express oneself accurately using a language that has more words in it that most on the planet.


Peregrination . . . this was a favorite word of my mothers before her death. I find I use it often and it works for psychedelic journeys too . . .


peregrination
  Use Peregrination in a sentence
per·e·gri·na·tion
[per-i-gruh-ney-shuhn] Show IPA

noun

1. travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
2. a course of travel; journey.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English peregrinacioun (< Middle French peregrinacion ) < Latin peregrīnātiōn- (stem of peregrīnātiō ) a traveling abroad. See peregrinate, -ion

Synonyms
1, 2. trip, excursion, expedition.

Tattvamasi

Thank you for this lovely and fascinating thread as I have a keen interest in linguistics. Indeed I have found that entheogens specifically mushrooms seem to give me a sense of poetic potency. One of my favorite words at the moment is:

Nubivagant (adj.) (nU-bi-‘vA-gant)

From Latin nubes (“cloud”) + vagant- (“wandering”).

(comparative more nubivagant, superlative most nubivagant)

(rare) Wandering in the clouds; moving through the air.


Much Peace and Respect

Thanks for all your posts thus far. Great stuff.

voluble

(VOL-yuh-buhl)

adjective: speaking incessantly or fluently.

He was as voluble as they come, talking everything from rocks to starships.

In psychiatry, the term neologism is used to describe the use of words that have meaning only to the person who uses them, independent of their common meaning. This tendency is considered normal in children, but in adults it can be a symptom of psychopathy or a thought disorder (indicative of a psychotic mental illness, such as schizophrenia). People with autism also may create neologisms.Additionally, use of neologisms may be related to aphasia acquired after brain damage resulting from a stroke or head injury.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism

any idea if we are heading in the the neologist territory , and is this a good thing ?

edit : i could be wrong and that is the usual for me so...... keep on keeping on people

edit again : perhaps if we share the words with each other as is the purpose of this thread , we will transcend neologism alltogether and head for clear waters

Here's one I invented:

NINJUG

Etymology: I was in the kitchen, my girlfriend was chopping something, I snuck up on her like a ninja gave her a hug: NINJA + HUG = NIN-JUG (Ninjug). A stealth hug.

I can really blow some minds with this book I have: it's called 2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words.

Example: Exclaustration (eks klos TRAY shuhn) n. Enclosed place.

Isagogic (eye suh GOJ ik, -GOG-) adj., meaning Introductory.

Those two words are obscure enough that my computer's spell check had never heard of it.

(the book give a full history and etymology of each word, but I don't feel like typing it all out)

Alright this one might not be all that obscure to some of you, but it is still one of my favorite words.

Autodidact
au·to·di·dact [aw-toh-dahy-dakt]
noun
a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.

I taught myself that word.

quixotic

(kwik-sot-ik)

adj. Idealistic without regard to practicality; impractical. 2. Impulsive: tending to act on whims or impulses.

I've been quite quixotic at points in my life.

gjumble

(ga-jum-bal)

generalization of human society , corporations or anything else for that matter

human society is a gjumble

why we have so many issues ? - because its all a gjumble

why we cant trust governments , corporations or hynea's ? - because its all a gjumble

sesquipedalian

(seskwəpəˈdālyən)

Someone who tends to use large words.

This is a great thread for sesquipedalians.

Sonder (saun-der)

N.

The uncomfortable realization that every other person on the planet is living a life just as complex and deep as yours and that you will never truly understand the vast majority of it.

Blessings
~ND