If the word sapphic describes a woman to woman love. What is the opposite of this term?

Edit: Thank you all for your suggestions. And I don’t think I’ll be back to revisit this subreddit.🫠

I just discovered your subredit in an early morning gallivant through the net in a search for an opposite to "schadenfreude". I found lots of great stuff right here among you Word-Lovin' Redditeers! Downside...there goes yet another piece of my offline life. I wonder if I should use the word "lif" instead. Maybe "ife"?

Stuff like “You’re such a jerk” but laughing it off.

Hello guys! I noticed how a friend always says that she was on 'autopilot' when she does something without any thought.

This has made me wonder what words or phrases were used to convey this very feeling before autopilot was a thing? I'm not looking for words like 'habit' because it doesn't convey the state of your mind while doing a task, it tells that you did a task because you've always done so and not much about your own awareness of it.

Thank you :)

I recently fell in love with the word inamorata and am now eager to find more that have a similar meaning or can be used to call someone very dear by. They can be made up or a little eerie too.

Many thanks in advance! :))

(This is merely for my personal word collection)

I recently learned to my embarrassment that Euler uses a Houston style pronunciation, rather than the Greek style, as in Euclid. What other words tripped you up for the longest time?

Hey guys 👋🏼 I'm writing an essay and I can't find a word for someone who uses others as stepping stones to meet their goal. If there isn't one, do you know any idoms or phrases denoting the same? Thank you!

I was going through my library to throw away some outdated technical books and saw one that mentioned the "information superhighway" on the cover. I had to laugh because that term feels so dated now.

Anyway it made me curious: what are some words that you have witnessed rise into the popular lexicon only to dissappear entirely?

Hoping someone manages to find a word thats usually used for bad lighting because its been bugging me that I can't find a good descriptor for it

I was looking at a video of someone cooking who tends to have this yellow-ish lighting that makes the meat look as if its radioactive and wanted to describe the lighting as something that didn't help to make it look nice or some kind of negative adjective thats normally used with lighting

Edit: The closest word that I found in replies was "unflattering"

How can we describe the incorrect use of pejorative terms or racial slurs? By incorrect, I mean the use of a word that typically refers to one particular group of people, but that for which the speaker uses it--probably unknowingly--for a different group of people by mistake.

It's usually a humid, swollen, headachy, tired, worn out feeling specific to massive emotions. It's like if petrichor was a feeling.

Thanks!

My favorite word

Hi r/logophilia

3 months ago I posted about Synonym Circuit, the degrees-of-separation word game my husband and I created for people who love language. We've been blown away by the support and openness we've received from the reddit community, and we want to especially thank you for all of the feedback and requests you've shared with us.

We've been iterating non-stop for the past 3 months, and I wanted to share all of the feature updates we've made. Almost all of these were direct requests from players like you, and we are really excited by how much your ideas have improved the game:

1. We added Expert Puzzles, designed be much more challenging than the Daily Puzzles. There's a new one every day and they tend to have around a 30% win rate.
2. We built archives, for both the Daily Puzzles and Expert Puzzles. Now you can play any puzzle that's ever been created.
3. We built a leaderboard to track the high score for every Expert Puzzle. If you set the Global Record for a given puzzle, you can put your name on the leaderboard and see yourself immortalized in the Expert Archives!
4. We adjusted our synonym sets to strike a better balance of comprehensiveness and relevancy while not being incredibly overwhelming when words have hundreds of synonyms. We still use Merriam-Webster's thesaurus api as our source, and we've added some additional filtering and tweaking specific to the experience of our players.
5. We added the ability to reveal the solution for Daily Puzzles. If you are stuck on a puzzle, you can now see one possible path to connect the two words, along with the shared definitions for each link in the circuit.

We really can't thank you enough for all of the above! We are a self-funding team of 2 and we are so grateful to have the opportunity to create something we love, guided by the ideas and feedback of fellow word game players.

Please feel free to share any and all additional feedback you may have! We would love to hear more feature requests and ways we could make the game better.

Thank you!

A pangram is a phrase or sentence which uses every letter in its origin alphabet once. You're most likely familiar with "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," though it has nine repeated letters, coming in at length 35 for English's 26 letter alphabet. A shorter one is "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow", with only three duplicitous letters.

Making a pangram exact, that is, every letter is used exactly once, is difficult. What if we used every letter exactly twice? Or three times, k times for a "k-perfect pangram"? Is there any literature on such attempts? I presume it would be easier because of the larger variety of words available, the phrases might even sound more natural.

Hey everyone,

English is my second language and I am wondering how to express myself correctly. Can you help me correct the following statement?

I will attend/see/listen to an opera performance.

Thank you!

Am I correct to assume 'bae' is the streamlined form, from Black culture of baby?

ANAGRAMS:

"Desperation" = A Rope Ends It

"Mother-in-law" = Woman Hitler "

Listen" = Silent

"Dormitory" = Dirty Room

Clint Eastwood=old west action

Race car spelled backwards is race car.

The mayor was a pompous pedantic prude of a politician.

Hello! So I’m playing a completely homebrew DnD campaign. It’s set it the modern day where superpowers exist. I have the ability to conjure and manipulate ice and cold. Long story short, I want to establish a Japanese style clan of ice users kinda like the Lin kuei or something. I’m looking for help naming said clan and/or for some terms relating to winter, ice, snow, and general cold. I would very much appreciate the help, and bonus points if their Japanese terms. Thank you!

I thought this was a fun word! The speaker was using Svengali to describe another person who had immense natural charisma. And it comes from an old movie, but I think the movie might be anti-Semitic. That the Jewish person is the Svengali :/

https://youtu.be/82W8cpJkShg?si=2rXyv88BqHTIQnJK&t=213

I tagged this NSFW since I am aware that there weren't many "polite" terms at the time. Anyways, I'm writing a book set in the revolutuonary war, and will take any words used from whenever-1778! (My book is mainly focusing on overlooked figures of minority groups in the war, such as POC, indigenous people, queer people, women who fought, etc.)

I'm writing a book and I'm looking for a word to match ' youth'. Mostly looking for something that can describe the youthful vivaciousness of athletes, grown adults engaged in sports at the peak of bodily physique and health. And make it a little homoerotic. The word youth on its own makes me uncomfortable.

for anything, not saying you don't fully trust that person - you do and and you absolutely believe they are telling the truth but you NEED to see it to solidify it in your brain.

as trivial as "there's some oil under the car, we should take it to get it checked out" - goes to see the oil spot.

or as complex as "your very old cat passed away in his sleep" -you look anyway. (fully knowing that sight will haunt you the rest of your life)

This is for something I'm writing about with two different kinds of elves in two separate forests. The original elves have trees called "Elfpines" while the other group of elves live in s different forest with none of these true Elfpines. Some people use the term "Elfpine" anyway to refer to any tree from an elven forest, since they're all coniferous, but are clearly different trees to anyone who's seen them both. "Erroneously" isn't quite what I'm looking for but it's very very close

Please don't banish me for this! I'm just a tiny indie developer and I know you guys will absolutely adore my game Qwert for iOS and Android. (I'm not just spam promoting on random subs, I promise)

6 different game modes that have you guess the definitions of words, come up with words based on open-ended prompts like "Starts with B" or "Ends with -ation", guess the daily word based on it's textbook definition, guess the missing word in a sentence....

The best part: you can literally choose any valid word in the English dictionary as your answer by freely typing it in. No letter tiles or restrictions of any kind, other than the validity of the word.

If you're looking for a new word game, please check it out and let me know what you think!

LINK: https://karatepossum.com/

yeah

Think if stereotypical "good" dreams or nightmares were manifested as places, or search up "dreams" or "scary nightmare" on Google images. How would you describe these places or pictures?

e.g. misty, dreamlike, surreal for dreams; dark, umbral, abyssal for nightmares... but I'd like more descriptor words

I came up with this new word concoction.