abreaction (en)

(noun) the expression and emotional discharge of unconscious material (as a repressed idea or emotion) by verbalization especially in the presence of a therapist

alterity (en)

(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

anamorphic (en)

(adjective) producing, relating to, or marked by intentional distortion (as by unequal magnification along perpendicular axes) of an image

apophatic (en)

(adj, theology) (of knowledge of God) obtained through negating concepts that might be applied to him

autochthonous (en)

(adjective) indigenous native / (adjective) formed or originating in the place where found

catalectic (en)

(adjective) lacking a syllable at the end of a line in metrical verse or ending in an incomplete foot

chiasmus (en)

(noun) a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.

clinamen (en)

poetic misreading or misprision

dehiscence (en)

(noun) when a seed vessel or a wound gapes or bursts open

expiate (en)

atone for (guilt or sin)

fuliginous (en)

(adjective) sooty / (adjective) obscure murky / (adjective) having a dark or dusky color

helots (en)

a subjugated population group that formed the main population of Laconia and Messenia, the territory controlled by Sparta (in Ancient Greece)

hermeneutic (en)

the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts

imprecate (en)

(verb) to invoke evil on; curse / (verb) to utter curses

interstice (en)

(noun) an intervening space

ipseity (en)

selfhood; individual identity (from Latin "ipse" for self)

karstic (en)

(noun) an irregular limestone region with sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns

libertine (en)

(noun) a freethinker especially in religious matters / (noun) a person who is unrestrained by convention or morality / (noun) one leading a dissolute life

lubricious (en)

(adjective) marked by wantonness; lecherous / (adjective) salacious / (adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality

Manichaeism (en)

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

metaleptic (en)

(from Greek) a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context

nomenklatura (en)

a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy running all spheres of those countries' activity

parapraxes (en)

Freudian slip in Greek

pharisaism (en)

(noun) the doctrines or practices of the Pharisees / (noun) pharisaical character, spirit, or attitude; hypocrisy

prurient (en)

(adj) having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters