In ancient greece, a friend who accompanied the bridegroom when he went to bring home the bride, or the bridesmaid who escorted the bride to the bridegroom [from late latin paranymphus, from greek paranymphos (masculine and. Home jul 10, 2000 this week's theme words to drop into conversations with a therapist this week's words trichotillomania cathexis arctophile symbiosis nisus acedia thanatophobia previous week’s theme unusual, esoteric, preposterous words a.word.a.day with anu garg do you have trouble verbalizing yourself to your psychologist Peter goodman, piano forte, newsday, jan 9, 1994 It has an esoteric tradition of capitalist altruism, too With the largest vocabulary of any language, in english we have a word to describe almost everything
And when we can't find one, we're happy to borrow from another language (from german Schadenfreude, pleasure at others' misfortune), or just make one up (petrichor, the pleasant smell of rain after a dry spell) Having said that, let's not gloat. Slowly they take over and we realize we need words with even greater potency, words that are unusual, esoteric, or even preposterous, to get a still greater high Are you one of those for whom the dictionary might be better characterized as addictionary Consider this week's words as extra high doses of your daily fix.
That might help explain why some of us get so hooked on them As time passes, we experience symptoms of mithridatism, the condition of.
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