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verge
Century Dictionary
n. A rod, or something in the form of a rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority or ensign of office; the mace of a bishop, dean, or other functionary.
brink, brim, zapatera, potance, cusp, edge, precipice, threshold, marge, viaticum, presque vu, selvage and 4 more...
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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Strange Phenomena of the Mind
Taken from here . . . http://listverse.com/science/top-10-strange-phenomena-of-the-mind/
déjà vu, déjà vécu, déjà visité, déjà senti, jamais vu, presque vu, l’esprit de l’esc..., capgras delusion, fregoli delusion, prosopagnosia
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1459 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
portmanteau, aesthetic, deviation, conglomerate, treachery, soluble, bildungsroman, soliloquy, irrevocable, effervescent, phrontistery, aeipathy and 180 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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random favorites
epiphanic, slake, tomfoolery, juxtapose, presque vu, eschew, albeit, sanguine, malfeasance, quixotic, agog, prestidigitation
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Close to home
sometimes too close
apophenia, synaesthesia, idiosyncrasy, foible, sangfroid, argumentum ad nau..., macaronic, kufesque, portmantologist, organotroph, lucubration, sciamachy and 5 more...
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so as not to forget
in the process of moving lots of these from miscellanea (got bored, got work to do)
PS really enjoying the button that says 'Update so as not to forget'presque vu, standfirst, shit-eating grin, cathexis, epigone, lodestone, folie à several, coeval, gutbucket, home straight, you've lost ten r..., kissing-cousins and 3 more...
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A List That Needs a Better Name
duende, saudade, numen, thaumaturgy, eldritch, quaesitum, quiddity, presque vu, phoenixity, metagrobolize, moira, octarine and 7 more...
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Schlockie: The Dark Half
Words and citations from Stephen King's 'The Dark Half'.
golf lies, dimbulb, boneatorium, perp, yea, lit, moulage, crawdaddy, dumpatorium, bank-teller, exercise wheel, presque vu and 34 more...
Tweets
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oroboros That "right on the tip of my tongue" feeling. Aug 18, 2008
bilby "But some of the terror lingered. The sound of the birds had caused on only deja vu, that sense of having experienced something before, but presque vu as well.
Presque vu: a sense of experiencing something which has not happened but will. Not precognition, exactly, but misplaced memory."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King. Dec 31, 2007
sionnach Presque vu (from French, meaning "almost seen") is the sensation of being on the brink of an epiphany. Oct 8, 2007