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neolatry
(en)
The worship of novelty; excessive fondness for new things or ideas
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We mean something else, something novel, neolatrous. The
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We mean something else, something novel, neolatrous. The
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numinous
(en)
(adjective) supernatural mysterious / (adjective) filled with a sense of the presence of divinity; holy / (adjective) appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense; spiritual
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There was no call to fly in New York journalists only to demo a product already numinous at no cost.
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There was no call to fly in New York journalists only to demo a product already numinous at no cost.
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novitiate
(en)
the period or state of being a novice, especially in a religious order.
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Please, we did not understand it either. Rather we did, but wrongly, on the novitiate plane.
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Please, we did not understand it either. Rather we did, but wrongly, on the novitiate plane.
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3 years, 7 months ago
quiddity
(en)
(noun) the inherent nature or essence of someone or something; a distinctive feature; a peculiarity
337
The only change detected, the only change detected so far, was so minor and negligible and immediately remediable as like to render its quiddity alone of major concern.
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The only change detected, the only change detected so far, was so minor and negligible and immediately remediable as like to render its quiddity alone of major concern.
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fulgent
(en)
(adjective) dazzlingly bright; radiant (effulgent is a synonym)
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Moe had posted all of this online, and to seal it exfiltrated the fulgence of our algys.
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Moe had posted all of this online, and to seal it exfiltrated the fulgence of our algys.
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3 years, 7 months ago
mawkish
(en)
(adjective) having an insipid often unpleasant taste / (adjective) sickly or puerilely sentimental
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kept the Master Classman as like director out of mawkishness and torpor
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kept the Master Classman as like director out of mawkishness and torpor
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cantilever
(en)
(noun) ; a projecting beam or member supported at only one end / a bracket-shaped member supporting a balcony or a cornice / either of the two beams or trusses that project from piers toward each other and that when joined directly or by a suspended connecting member form a span of a cantilever bridge
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linden
(en)
a kind of deciduous tree
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The lindens were being left by their leaves, and I blew through in a swirl of emergency colors.
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The lindens were being left by their leaves, and I blew through in a swirl of emergency colors.
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stolid
(en)
calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation
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this outstanding reproduction of a hotel, stolid in its blockbound prewar glory, truly the architectural embodiment of everything the city surrounding it has always aspired to
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this outstanding reproduction of a hotel, stolid in its blockbound prewar glory, truly the architectural embodiment of everything the city surrounding it has always aspired to
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3 years, 7 months ago