\vih-SIS-ih-tood; -tyood\; noun:
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
3. A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).
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January 01, 2010, 2:07pm
noun • /ak-SIZ-muhs/ • Feigning lack of interest in something while actually desiring it.
From Greek ἀκκισμός, ‘coyness, affectation’.
Example: ‘A woman uses no figure of eloquence — her own, at most, excepted — so often as that of accismus.’ Jean Paul Richter; Levana (translation); 1889.
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May 15, 2009, 8:36pm
noun • /DROMO-may-nee-uh/ • a compulsive longing for travel (wordjournal)
February 26, 2009, 4:03pm
noun • a nonexistent letter of the alphabet which some children think comes between ‘k’ and ‘p’ (via wordjournal)
January 26, 2009, 2:30am
“Memento mori: hipster with a bald spot.” (via yourmonkeycalled)
March 19, 2008, 1:31am
