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Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, [1] is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, feeling, sourcing, [2] and describing one's emotions.
peace officer in a township without an organised police department official who serves summonses (UK: bailiff or sheriff's officer) construction the act or process of building or constructing; a structure; the construction industry from construe: the assigning of meaning to ambiguous terms
Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for ...
(v.) (slang) to act like a fop, to wander about aimlessly without achieving anything ponce off (v.) (slang) to mooch, to hit up, to leave in a pompous manner pong (n.) (slang) a strong unpleasant smell; (v.) to give off a strong unpleasant smell; (adj.) pongy poof, poofter (derogatory) a male homosexual (US equivalent: fag, faggot) pouffe, poof ...
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Grok (/ ˈ ɡ r ɒ k /) is a neologism coined by the American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment", [1] Heinlein's ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
width / ˈ-ɪ d θ / rhymes with obsolete sidth, meaning length. woman / ˈ-ʊ m ən / rhymes with toman (some pronunciations), a Persian coin and military division. [21] yoicks / ˈ-ɔɪ k s / rhymes with oiks, the plural of oik, a slang term for a boorish member of the lower class in the U.K. and Ireland. It also forms an identity rhyme with ...