Taylor Napolsky's new words
lome - (lōm) - n.
The state of thinking of your days as near-mindlessly repetitive, week after week, so you can already see how it’s going to go for weeks or months or more ahead of time. Usually associated with an unexciting, mundane life.
osit - (ä-sît) - n. - v.
osited - (ä-sît-îd) - v. - adj.
osity - (ä-sît-ē) - n. - adj.
To remake/reform/transform/remold/reshape and so on, but specifically reshaping it into what it should be, and specifically its final state. (Its “final” state often changes again though. Again and again. Ha!)
proach - (prōch) - n. - v.
When you don’t understand something the first three or four times you read it, but then go back and read it again a little later, often after reading further ahead, and it suddenly makes sense.
resmore - (rěs-môr) - n.
A coincidental correspondence between stuff you’re reading and have been thinking about lately; or it comes up again in what you’re listening to, etc.
spira - (spî-rǔ) - n.
The sense of surprise, disconcertment, or shock that comes from seeing an actor (whether on TV or on social media or in real life) in modern clothes, with modern makeup and hair, talking like a regular, contemporary person. This feeling comes from the juxtaposition of getting used to them in a role, playing a character, speaking like that character, wearing the character’s clothes, inhabiting the film or show’s world. It usually doesn’t last long.
stacropus - (stǎ-crǔ-pǔs) - v.
Holding back on experiencing sensations—such as taste or music—which one associates with a certain activity or event, so as not to pollute that feeling, taking away from its effect. For example the association of eating peanuts on a plane, or hearing a film’s score while watching the film.
trpry - (trâr-rē) - n. - adj.
The state of believing something but also being skeptical about it; it sounds good but you think there might be flaws or a catch. Usually applies to huge macro ideas, i.e., political systems and theories, things like that….
velidente - (věl-ǐ-děnt) - n. - adj. - v.
When you're in public and engaged on something on your phone that requires full attention, often involving a timer or clock, so you cannot look up from it; but things start getting hectic around you and you just stay with it, hoping it's safe, and that you're not taking a big risk by keeping your focus on it.
vel·i·dente, vel·i·dented, vel·i·denting - v.
velidente, velidentes - (věl-ǐ-děnts) - n.
1. The person doing this becomes the velidente, themself.
He or she is the velidente.
2. The velidente is this state, i.e., when a person won't look up from their device for this particular reason, they are in velidente.