Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In political economics, a term suggested by Professor V. Pareto as a substitute for ‘utility,’ as used in political economy.
Wiktionary
- n. Economic satisfaction.
- n. The ability to please another.
Examples
“Neetu Chandak of Seneca Falls, N.Y., spelled the economic term "ophelimity" as if she were asking a question, then exclaimed "Yes!" and raised her arms when told she had spelled the word correctly.”
“She correctly spelled her first word in the finals, "ophelimity".”
“But soon thereafter it was proved that even this stronger axiom does not entail the existence of an ophelimity function.”
“The result is that choice no longer yields indifference lines and hence cannot be represented by an ophelimity index.”
“Unfortunately, even “ophelimity,” the term coined by Vilfredo Pareto to cleanse the terminology of any vernacular overtones, did not prevail.”
“Today the notion of an ordinal utility dominates consumer theory, the central problem of which is how to derive an ophelimity function from directly observable budget data.”
“To this transparent definition, Samuelson added only an equally transparent axiom: If a budget reveals that the basket A is preferred to B, no budget can reveal that B is preferred to A. Samuelson claimed that this axiom alone suffices for deriving by integration the indifference varieties and hence for constructing an ophelimity function.”
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
oakum, oakus, oast, obambulate, obdormition, obduracy, obedible, obedientiary, obeism, obeliscolychny, obelize, obelus and 504 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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Fun words
shit accelerant, highfalutin, queue, gymnosophy, adhocracy, lucubration, amphigory, vernalagnia, frabjous, saxify, sesquipedalian, basorexia and 44 more...
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tony63a's list
My 100 favorite words (in no particular order)
peripeteia, adscititious, agathokakological, altitudinarian, animadversion, mumpsimus, acatalepsy, démarche, chrematistics, isocracy, jocoserious, manqué and 13 more...
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Miscellany, pt. o
ophelimity, ovoviviparous, oolith, ooplasm, oozooid, opeidoscope, ookinete, oont, ooxanthine, oocyan, oometry, oorhodeine and 23 more...
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shevek n. Ability to please sexually; ability to satisfy. (from The Phrontistery) Nov 16, 2008