Hello all,

I've added a description to the /r/neology home page to clarify just what the subreddit is meant to be for. Additionally, I've added a couple new post flair options for anyone to use.

For the description, I said that the subreddit is for introducing new words, discussing a novel use for existing words, or seeking help creating a new word based on a provided definition.

The new post flair is intended to help identify what posters are looking for, and make it easier for readers to find them.

The new flairs are:

"Neo This" - If you're looking to get help in creating a brand new word, post a definition for the subject (expand on it in the post's body if needed) and other users can offer their suggestions or ask for more clarification.

"Proposed Word" - If you came up with a new word and you think it's worth sharing with us, please make sure to put the word in the title along with a brief description. If more description is warranted, feel free to expand in the post body.

"Word Discussion" - If you have encountered a new word, new use of a word, or new expression in the wild and you want to discuss it, please include it in the post title and use this flair.

"Meta" - If you wish to discuss the rules, practices, moderation, settings, or cromulence of this subreddit please use this flair.

Note that these new post flairs are not required for posting, they're just meant to make things a little easier to read around here.

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Awhile ago a group of people complained the local theatre was putting on a play about an LGBT character but they were unhappy because the actor cast was not LGBT.
It is my understanding is that the unhappy group were not regular threatre goers but the director appeased the vocal minority and recast.
My unsolicited advice for the director was agree to recast IF all performances sell out within a certain timeframe.
A noun would be ideal.
"Yes! Did you hear we won the fight! They're recasting that LGBT role!"
"Cool. What night should we go?"
"Oh...I don't really like stage theatre."
"But you protested the casting?! You're just a [word I'm looking for]."

Is there an existing word that encompasses the feeling one might get when lookin at, for example, eyes so beautifully hypnotic everything else seems to disappear for a moment. Not love or entrancement I don’t think. If there isn’t a word for that what could be the word for that ?

I have read that using water is never a good idea in hydraulics because it is reactive (causes rust and other issues). Wikipedia says the word "hydraulic" comes from the greek words "water" and "pipe". I'm trying to think of a word that is a contraction of "oil" and "pipe". What would be a good neologism for that? "Oleaulic"?

Like a really, really, really, really bad F-A-I-L-U-R-E

Is there a word for the feeling of your blood flowing through every individual vein and artery in your body, and hating that fact because it's a constant sensation of something moving under your skin?

I am looking to research and apply this term across all kinds and forms of religious groups/organizations, including ones that at first might be perceived as peaceful or pacifistic.

For context, I’m using this in a review to describe an appetizer that is considered basic in that culture’s cuisine. But because the restaurant I ordered it at was so horribly horrible, I was gobsmacked at how they could even mess that dish up.

Also open to seeing if there’s a word for this in any non-English languages, but I’m unsure if there’s a subreddit for that.

And decidedly less attractive in full-size photos or real life.

Context, I'm creating an overarching system for how magic works in a universe I'm creating for my stories and such. There is a thing in this universe called essence, that permeates all matter in the same way all matter has energy stored within it's atomic bonds. It's simply a fact of the universe.

However, in order to use it is must be aligned with what is basically a polarity (though that's not accurate since there's three "poles"), and I'm looking for a more succinct word to describe unaligned essence, since the word unaligned feels kind of clunky. Tried finding a suffix for it, but failed, and the prefix I was looking at is 'a-' meaning not.

Currently using the word 'Unkeyed' stolen from the unkeyed metalminds from the Mistborn series, by Sanderson.

Hope this is the right subreddit, we’re drunk at a birthday celebration. Found out someone refuses to eat chicken or fish or any other meat other than cow and this is what we’ve settled on. Posting so others can Yea or Nay and we remember this convo. Cheers everyone!

As per the title looking for a word, preferably a fancy and fun sounding one to add to the vocabulary, although a phrase can work too, that describes the act of intentionally and conscientiously designing your life/lifestyle to suit your needs and preferences.
Cheers in advance!

Most people know what lasers and USBs are , but less know what they mean.

I am building a house with a floor, four walls, and a roof. For the sake of the example, assume I cannot remove the floor without first removing the walls and the roof.

I am wearing a shirt and a sweatshirt. I cannot remove my shirt without first/also removing my sweatshirt.

What would be the name for a thing like this? A thing that can only be modified at the outermost layer?

About two years ago I took a vacation to Las Vegas. I had never been, my vaccine against the only COVID variant at the time was at full strength, and flights to (and hotels in) Vegas were super cheap. I figured I might as well go see the Strip, the Bellagio, and Ceaser's Palace at least once in my life.

On the first day, it was pretty spectacular. The lights! The sounds! The (sometimes unfortunate) smells! I was seeing all the things I've seen in movies and TV and B-roll for sporting events.

But on day two I noticed something odd happening. Everything started to feel thin. The experience of everything, that is. Sure, the hotel was dressed up to look (MGM) grand, but behind that veneer was the same industrial-grade carpeting, the same unresponsive room keys, and the same human misery born by an over-worked food and cleaning staff that every other hotel I'd ever been in had. It wasn't grand at all, but rather had been thinly dressed up to feel that way in hopes that I would go along with the fantasy. It made me weirdly sad; like I had been lied to (and badly).

Then the rest of the Strip started to take on the same feeling of thinness. All the bars I had been told were amazing were just mediocre drinks wrapped up in venues trying desperately to convince me they were special. The Bellagio fountains were fine, but I'd seen similar things before. The "market" at New York, New York was just the same, overpriced hotel gift crap and food that could be had anywhere else.

I couldn't escape this odd feeling that, the more my surroundings tryed desperately to convince me that I was in a unique, special, one-of-a-kind place, the more painfully I became aware of how mundane it really was underneath the surprisingly thin veneer. Once I got back home, I started seeing it in other places. My exurb's "town square" was really just a poorly created illusion by a development company to make me feel like I was in the "heart" of my city. The new "lifestyle destination" built nearby was just an overly expensive strip mall around a legally required retention pond. The new "community-centric living district" going up nearby was just a collection of overpriced, slap-dash, cookie-cutter townhomes with no thought to how people cultivate a sense of community at all.

In all these cases, the realization of the illusion of grandeur, sophistication, and belonging instead made things feel mundane, crude, and isolated. I felt like I had been lied to. Not in a way that made me angry, but more sad that I couldn't genuinely experience the emotion my surroundings wanted so desperately to invoke in me.

In trying to find a word for this feeling, I've stumbled over "derealization" which kind of fits but seems to be more about feeling that reality itself isn't real as opposed to the feeling that the carefully cultivated experience in front of you isn't genuine. In a way, these things are "simulacrum," but it's not a great fit and it's not an adjective. Apparently, "simulacral" can be an adjective form, but it's still not a great fit as these things fail to be recreations of things that do exist as opposed to being recreations without originals. It's all a sort of "hyperreality," but that's about the thing itself, not the inverse emotion you feel upon its recognition.

Any thoughts?

The title says it all.

is there a word for like when the world continues to move on, despite something traumatic happening to you? like when you walk outside and your brain is still mush, yet people still walk their dogs, and they will never know what you just endured.

I've had this pop up with old videos on YouTube such as the old Inside Gaming videos, and it's such a particular thing to do, I thought there should be a word for it. Thoughts?

> The court's ruling is claimed to be (...) because it has only counted specific actions to set up some (...) simple structure of justice that only encompasses the last hour neglecting the history of events.
... = ?
Referring to current attitudes that have arisen in the general span of an hour or day or other fairly newly developed engagement. "Of the moment" "According to recent neoteric dispositions"
**The structure is simple because it is founded on only one or two just-happened pieces of evidence.**
Adjacent to "transient" "transitory" "ephemeral" but in reference to a newly grown/spoken structure of logic.
"recent" and "latest" seem too general and encompassing an indeterminate amount of time, whereas the word I'm looking for refers only to the nature of the just-referenced events, which is (...)
**Transient = lasting for a short amount of time**
**(...) = *has only lasted* for a short amount of time**

Looking for a verb that could be replaced with ‘not see’ in ‘Come and not see’. Like walking into a black room. The closest I could come up with is ‘unobserve’ but that isn’t quite right.

I work in healthcare and when you start out there's so much insane shit that's initially quite shocking. After a while you just stop seeing it as crazy and it becomes part of your day to day.

For a writing project where this God disappears

gonna be used in a podcast title. just the feeling we all get when we’re with friends or family or alone in nature and we feel true love and appreciation just for being here on this earth, alive for a second with the people we love.

Hello so sorry if this is confusing. The idea is yeah two words that mean the same thing but have different connotations. For example a synonym for a word but the two words have different meanings that are widely adopted by people. Please help!