Corroded@leminal.space to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 days agoWhat's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?message-squaremessage-square295fedilinkarrow-up1277arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1274arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?Corroded@leminal.space to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square295fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·edit-24 days agoI’ve got six of them: Tittynope: “A small amount left over; a modicum.” Cacography: “bad handwriting or spelling.” Epeolatry: “the worship of words.” Kakistocracy: “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.” Oikophilia: “love of home” Tenebrous: “dark; shadowy or obscure”
minus-squareJojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoFeel like tenebrous being on a list of obscure words is tenuous, but maybe I just have esoteric interests.
minus-squareMutilationWave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoUnlike many of these I’d heard it before but didn’t know its true meaning. It fits.
minus-squareCorroded@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoThat list is going to send me down a rabbit hole looking for the etymology of words
minus-squareReCursing@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days ago Kakistocracy: “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.” See also kleptocracy: rule by thieves. I not infrequently refer to our government as a kleptocratic kakistocracy
minus-squareBirch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days ago“Pardon my cacography” sure has a better ring to it than, “can you read this?”
minus-squareNostraDavid@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 days agoOh, I also really like Mammonism: “the greedy pursuit of riches”, from the Biblical “Mammon”.
minus-squareLemmyRefugee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days ago‘Tenebroso’ is commonly used in Spanish, at least in Spain. This whole thread is very interesting.
I’ve got six of them:
Feel like tenebrous being on a list of obscure words is tenuous, but maybe I just have esoteric interests.
Unlike many of these I’d heard it before but didn’t know its true meaning. It fits.
That list is going to send me down a rabbit hole looking for the etymology of words
See also kleptocracy: rule by thieves. I not infrequently refer to our government as a kleptocratic kakistocracy
I’m a master in Cacography!
“Pardon my cacography” sure has a better ring to it than, “can you read this?”
Oh, I also really like Mammonism: “the greedy pursuit of riches”, from the Biblical “Mammon”.
‘Tenebroso’ is commonly used in Spanish, at least in Spain. This whole thread is very interesting.
Voldemort is Señor Tenebroso.