INTRAPERSONAL - October 14, 2017

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Definitions for intrapersonal

1. existing or occurring within the self or within one's mind: People with   high intrapersonal intelligence are aware of their strengths and  weaknesses. Intrapersonal conflict can lead to emotional stress.

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Citations for intrapersonal

Besides the physical and musical varieties, Gardner has defined six other types of  intelligences: spatial (visual), interpersonal (the ability to understand others),  intrapersonal (the ability to understand oneself), naturalist (the ability to recognize fine   distinctions and patterns in the natural world) and, finally--the ones we worked so hard on in school--logical and linguistic.Christopher Koch, "The Bright Stuff," CIO, March 15, 1996

The final product works as both an interpersonal drama, creating a harrowing conflict   between four believable characters, and an intrapersonal drama, dramatizing the   internal debate a person goes through when faced with a traumatic situation.Matt Bird, The Secrets of Story, 2016

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Narcotize - September 2nd, 2017

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Definitions for narcotize

1. to make dull; stupefy; deaden the awareness of: He had used liquor to narcotize his anxieties.
2. to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
3. to act as a narcotic: a remedy that does not heal but merely narcotizes.

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Citations for narcotize

I'm not speaking of all that will happen to annoy, bore, irritate, coerce, oppose, tyrannize, narcotize, paralyze, and idiotize a man in marriage, in that struggle of two beings always in one another's presence, bound forever, who have coupled each other under the strange impression that they were suited.Honoré de Balzac, The Marriage Contract, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, 1885

Television, one gathers, is facing up to the new realities by flinging out its arms to the past and scheduling more of the same--bright new faces to be sure, handsome production values, glittering decor and facades for stories and situations that cannarcotize a nation.Thomas Thompson, "The Crapshoot for Half a Billion," Life, September 10, 1971

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ANOESIS - Tuesday, August 01, 2017

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Definitions for anoesis

1. a state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content.

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Citations for anoesis

Normally, on my long-distance walks, anoesis descends within a few miles: the mental tape loop of infuriating resentments, or inane pop lyrics, or nonce phrases gives way to the greeny-beige noise of the outdoors.Will Self, Psychogeography, 2007

The text is pure anoesis, sensation without understanding, devoid of ethical or mythic comfort.Barcley Owens, Cormac McCarthy's Western Novels, 2000

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Origin of anoesis

Anoesis is an uncommon noun, used mostly in psychology for a state of consciousness in which there is only sensation but no thought. The word is purely and obviously   Greek: the first letter, a-, is called “alpha privative” (i.e., it expresses negation or   deprivation) and is familiar in such words as atheist or agnostic. The alpha privative is  related to Latin in-, as in insensible or indefensible, and to Germanic un-, as in English  unhealthy or unusual. The main element is the Greek noun nóēsis “thought,   intelligence” (and the opposite of aísthēsis “sense perception, sensation,” from which we have the Nous, rhyming with house, is a colloquialism in British English meaning   “good sense, common sense, gumption.” Anoesis entered English in the early 20th   century.

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Sunday, July 23, 2017 - Polemic

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Definitions for polemic

1. a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
2. a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist.
3. of or relating to a polemic; controversial. Also, polemical.

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Citations for polemic

The second [book] is an angry polemic against the pervasive corruption of representative democracy wrought by economic inequality.Jonathan A Knee, "The New Gilded Age in Philanthropy," New York Times, May 1, 2017

An Orwellian polemic against mass-market journalism, of which one would expect the left-wing Lucas to approve, reveals a ‘righteous’ hatred.Terry Eagleton, "Reach-Me-Down Romantic," London Review of Books, Vol. 25, No. 25, June 19, 2003

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What's the difference between our Liberal elitist and our Conservative elitist?  

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A different way of asking the same question...

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What do all our elected representative have in common?

They all triangulate their good (gold) fortune off the congeniality bias (misfortune) of their constituents.

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Synonyms for misfortune

noun disaster

accident, adversity, affliction, annoyance, anxiety, bad break, bad luck, bad news, blow, burden, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, cross, crunch, debacle, disadvantage, disappointment, discomfort, dole, failure, hard luck, hardship, harm, inconvenience, infelicity, loss, misadventure, mischance, misery, mishap, nuisance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, tough luck, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unlucky, unpleasantness, visitation, worry,

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PHENOLOGY - Friday, July 07, 2017

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Definitions for phenology

1. the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.

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Citations for phenology

... he had arranged to have six sycamores, identical to those at observatories in Britain and on the continent, planted on the grounds so that the effects of climate on vegetation might be compared all over Europe. This study was called phenology ...Jane Urquhart, The Night Stages, 2015

The Meteorological Office has little time for plants, preferring the objectivity of thermometers, barometers and satellite images. But whatever the meteorologists think of phenology, there are some things that plants can do that they can't.Stephanie Pain, "Flowers that bloom in the winter," New Scientist, March 11, 1989

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SUI GENERIS - Saturday, June 17, 2017

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Definitions for sui generis

1. Latin. of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique.

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Citation for sui generis

In an earlier case also involving a dog’s role in bringing about a search, United States v.   Place, the Court described the “canine sniff” as “sui generis,” highlighting that the dog nose is a tool quite unlike any human investigative tools.

Alexandra Horowitz, "What the Dog Knows," The New Yorker, February 23, 2013

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PRELAPSARIAN - Monday, June 12, 2017

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Definitions for prelapsarian

1. characteristic of or pertaining to any innocent or carefree period: a   prelapsarian youth.
2. Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of   Eden.
3. supralapsarian.

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Citations for prelapsarian

Looking back, I think I had what is best described as a prelapsarian fondness for fifth   grade, its lack of complication.Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor, 2009

The show has a bifocal demographic appeal: it’s designed to charm both nostalgic         Gen-X’ers and younger viewers who are drawn to a prelapsarian world of walkie-talkies, landlines, and suburban kids left free to roam wherever they want on their bicycles.Emily Nussbaum, "'Stranger Things' and 'The Get Down'," The New Yorker, August 22, 2016

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Origin of prelapsarian

Prelapsarian is distinctively Christian in its meaning “before the Fall” ( lapsus in Latin) of Adam and Eve from their state of bliss in the Garden of Eden, especially with regard to Adam and Eve’s unselfconscious nudity and innocence. The word is also used in   nonreligious or secular contexts to refer to a person’s unselfconscious naturalness.   Prelapsarian entered English in the 19th century.

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