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✍ Unusual Descriptive Words; List of unusual words
Topic Started: Sep 29 2016, 02:28 PM (80 Views)
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Unusual Descriptive Words
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Here is a list of unusual descriptive words. This list will be added too continually, to create a small datebase for members. Feel free to post words you know or find which are unusual that can be added to the list. Once these words are added to the list your post will be deleted to keep things tidy in here.
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A
Aeipathy: (n.) an enduring and consuming passion.
Apodyopsis: the act of mentally undressing someone.
Abulia: (n.) the inability to make decisions or act independently.
Aponia: The absence of pain considered as a state of spiritual serenity.



B
Bibliophile: (n.) a lover of books; someone who loves to read, admire and collect books.
Biblioklept: (n.) a person who steals books.
Basorexia: The overwhelming urge to kiss someone.
Brumous: (n.) something that is foggy, wintry.
Brontide: referring to the sound of distant thunder.



C
Clinomania: (n.) excessive desire to stay in bed.
Cheiloprocitic: (n.) being attracted to someones lips.
Cruciverbalist: one who loves doing crossword puzzles.
Charientism: An artfully veiled insult.
Crepuscule: twilight; dusk.



D
Desideratum: (n.) something which is greatly desired.
Defenestrate: to throw out of the window.



E
Eccedentesiast: (n.) one who fakes a smile.
Euphony: a bearable or agreeable sound.
Epicaricacy: taking pleasure in other's misfortune.
Exosculate: to kiss fervently or heartily.
Euonym: a pleasing or beautiful name.



H
Hypnopompic: the state existing between sleep and waking, characterised by persistence of dreamlike imagery.


I
Inaniloquent: speaking foolishly or saying silly things.
Iniquitous: (adj.) sinful, wicked; characterised by injustice, vice, and debauchery



K
Kalon: (n.) beauty that is more than skin deep.


L
Latibule: (n.) a hiding place; a place of safety and comfort.
Lethologica: the inability to recall the right word for something.
Licentious: (adj.) sexually and/or morally unrestrained; lewd, perverse; going beyond societal norms and customs



M
Metanoia: (n.) the journey of changing one's mind, heart, self, or way of life.


N
Numinous: (adj.) describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted - the powerful, personal feeling of overwhelmed and inspired.
Nepenthe: something, such as drink or a drug, capable of making one forget suffering.



P
Petrichor: the smell of earth after rain.
Psithurism: the sound of the wind in the tree's or rushing leaves.



Q
Quaintrelle: (n.) a woman who emphasises a life of passion, expressed through personal lifestye.
Quixotic: extremely romantic and chivalrous.



S
Scripturient: (n.) possessing a violent desire to write.
Sophistry: (n.) a plausible, but misleading argument.
Sphallolalia: flirtaious talk that leads nowhere.
Sempiternal: Eternal and unchanging, everlasting.
Sylph: a graceful and slender young woman.



T
Tarantism: an urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.
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