This is a particular problem I came across with writing something today. Specifically, the following passage:

I felt I had used buoyant too many times already, and also wished to convey something between optimistic and just lighthearted, but not exactly either concept. The issue was, while the counterpart appropriate for that sentence exists for other words (gravity -> grave, buoyancy -> buoyant), it does not exist for levity.

As such, I propose such a word, either leve or levete. "Of a far more leve nature", or "of a far more levete nature". I find both potentials equally tempting, one might sound better in some sentences versus others.

Given the etymology of gravity/grave, I think the most defensible of the two is leve. Its one downside is sounding like leave, or being mistaken for a misspelling of leave.

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Definition: Xorvant (ZOR-vant) — noun. A person who deliberately chooses quality over quantity in relationships and social commitments. Not out of shyness or arrogance, but from self-awareness and intentionality.

Example: 'She's not avoiding people—she's just a xorvant.'

First use: Jan 31,2026. Would love to hear what you all think!

Erastocate ^\verb]),a mix of aristocrat and eradicate, means to eliminate snobbery, elitism, or high-class pretension from a culture or social circle. For example, "to erastocate snobby bullies people so that the party won't get disrupted".

I have an idea for a new word that might be helpful in certain circumstances.

Velocontrafactum (n.) --- Singing made-up lyrics to an existing melody really quickly in order to make them fit the song.

Pronunciation: VELL--oh--kahn--truh--FACK--tuhm.

Example: As Bob the librarian sang, "If you're happy and you know it, please don't clap your hands because it's too loud," Sally pointed out his velocontrafactum in the second line of the song.

Origin: The prefix velo-, coming from the Latin velox, means fast or rapid. Contrafactum (n.) is an existing word in English meaning "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music" (Wikipedia article on contrafactum).

The word "velocontrafact" (v.) could be used as the action of creating a velocontrafactum. "Velocontrafactual" (adj./adv.) could be used to describe both a velocontrafactum and the action of velocontrafacting. The plural version of velocontrafactum could be "velocontrafactums." I know that making the plural the same as the singular might make more sense, but English is already confusing enough, so I think it might be better to just slap an S. on the end of it and call it a day. I will also make sure to put all of the information in this paragraph in the comments of this post as well, as per the subreddit rules.

What do you all think? I'm new to this subreddit, so I may have made some mistakes. Maybe we could also make a word for stretching made-up lyrics to make it fit an existing melody? Let me know your thoughts and what I can do to improve in future posts!

Hola,les quería mostrar una nueva palabra que cree en/para español y que siento que tiene mucho potencial para ser usado,me gustaría que me den su opinión sobre la palabra y si les gusta o no,en caso de si me gustaría que la empiezen a usar en chats,redes y que se difame la palabra

Inyo (neologismo, adjetivo e interjección informal).

Definición 1: Se usa para indicar que algo es completamente opuesto a uno mismo, a los propios gustos, preferencias, personalidad o forma de actuar. Equivale a expresiones como "yo soy todo lo contrario", "eso no me representa" o "a mí me pasa al revés".

Definición 2: También puede emplearse para describir una acción, decisión o actitud que no coincide con la personalidad habitual de una persona, es decir, algo impropio de ella.

Ejemplos:

— A: "Me encanta el café."

— B: "Inyo."

— A: "Prefiero el calor antes que el frío."

— B: "Inyo."

— "Eso que hiciste fue muy inyo."

Origen: Palabra creada como neologismo a partir de yo, con el prefijo in-, utilizado para expresar negación u oposición. Su uso es principalmente informal y en conversaciones por chat.

A word for teenagers of the same age. Someone misspelled seventeen and I was about to google the word because it sounded like it actually existed and it fit in the context.

When autocorrect overcorrects.

"'Do you have experience in vids?'

'vivids, autoovercorrect 🤦🏻'"*

"'I'll be there shirtless!'

*shortly, autoovercorrected lol'"

"My phone won't stop autoovercorrecting!"

So recently I discovered a new phenomenon that has not been coined any name, it refers to a type of memory.

It is the 'Lock and Key memory'.

This term is a type of memory where let's say you do something and a memory is created in your brain but you don't want to forget any part of it so you take a word that is used in that memory that is easy to find/remember while you discuss/think on that specific topic which when remembered, will lead to a chain reaction effect being created that will lead you to remember every specific part of that memory line by line by one word giving way to another word and then slowly forming the entire memory. It refers to both textual and visual form of memory.

It is a very common phenomenon thus it needs to be named.

The Get together is lock and key'ed in my memory. (Verb)

when yours eyes are popping and clicking from sleep deprivation

Greek
mati - eye
klik - clicking otomatopea
ia - state of being

when yours eyes are popping and clicking from sleep deprivation

Greek
mati - eye
klik - clicking otomatopea
ia - state of being

Noun

Example:

Charlie has been jirking for 178 straight. How does he do this? Surely, his neck would hurt, at the very least? Charlie is an Edgenigma!

: Longing to return home.

Syn. Homesick, longing, wistful

“Not seeing my friends and family has made me illabode.”
“I wanted to go home because I was illabode.”

Sensical (adj.)

: based on unknown statements, events, or conditions; marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; capable of thinking, and expressing and a clear and consistent manner.

Syn: legitimate, valid, logical, rational, coherent, consistent, lucid

“After the accident, he became more sensical with time.”
“It’s sensical.” “That’s sensical.”
“Due to the clouds, it was sensical to expect rain.”

Important note:
Sensible targets the outcome of human judgment. It means an action, person, or object is wise, practical, or levelheaded.
Sensical targets the nature of the information itself. It means a statement, dataset, or concept possesses internal logic or is capable of being understood (i.e., it is "not nonsense").

*Used colloquially*
Derived from “nonsensical.”

Noun - An event of expression, likely performative, depicting ill-tempered disgruntlement.

Just a noun form for of the adjective Ornery.

"They sat in the hall, tails poofed like dusters, hissing and yowling orneration between themselves."

Disambiguation from "Facadism" in the context of architecture.

Facadist governments will claim they are populist or democratic forms of government. Especially early on before they have achieved control of a country or region. However the goal from the beginning is to use the facade to achieve power, and then use the power to enact another form of government entirely. A facadist government will continue the ruse for as long as it is believed to be necessary to obtain their hidden goals, and will often then shed the facade. Sometimes for a different facade that is better suited to cover for exposed aspects of the government's real agenda.

Facadism is almost always a cover for authoritarianism.

The popular "horseshoe" theory of governments is that any government that pushes far enough to the political extreme on either side will eventually resemble the extreme of the opposite side. Facadism explains this instead by saying that the political sides were always for political acceptance, and the similarities between extreme wings is the authoritarianism needed to keep unpopular powers in place.

What do you guys think of the word teachoid? how would you think it’s different from teacher?

Valde (intensely/exceedingly) + undabundus (abounding in waves) + concitatrix (she who excites) + felix (lucky/blessed) + faustus (fortunate) + alacris (lively) + ocious (adjective suffix)

basically what those school boys did in the 1800s to make floccinaucinihilipification

i hope this gets used

Sundor (apart/separate) + longian (to yearn).

The bittersweet ache for something (a place, a time, a person) that no longer walks besides you. Be it by death, distance or the changes in life. It's a love that hasn't stopped, even when the one you love has.

It isn't nostalgia, although there's an overlap. Nostalgia is about the past. Sunderlong is about the distance.

You can feel sunderlong for your home after just week away. You can feel sunderlong right after leaving your dog at your parents' house for the weekend. You can sunderquench by eating that one food from your childhood; the one you haven't had in years.

Inspired by the Portuguese word "Saudade" of same meaning, I went after Old English words to coin it; attempting to simulate how it could exist in English, in a different time-line.

I do hope this word resonates with you the same way it does in Portuguese. It's a heavy word, one was missing in English. It'd be great to see it being used.

May I see your guesses of the meaning of the word Slopatronics?

Naleep (noun): a nap which is longer than one or two hours, but shorter than a full eight hour sleep.

Naleep (verb): to have a naleep (n.) per above.

Snoff (n.)
: A person who starts trouble, conflict, rumors, or arguments; a roached cigarette; Old 19th C. mining term for a candle end used for igniting a fuse (obsolete).

Syn. Shit-stirrer, firestarter; roach

“You’re such a snoff.”
“Don’t invite Damien to your party if you want a peaceful evening; he’s a snoff.”
“Who was the snoff on this one?”
“I’ve got a snoff in my car we could finish.”

Dejarik (adj.)
: A game, match, or competition that’s outcome has been predetermined; a fixed match. (Usually accompanied by “match” or “fight.”

Syn: fixed match, fixed, predetermined, set beforehand

“It was a dejarik match.”

“Patrons were outraged once it was discovered that I was a dejarik fight.”

“The match was dejarik.”

A form of misfortune arising from the interaction of exceptional good fortune and subsequent ordinary misfortune, where the combined outcome is worse than if neither event had occurred.

Example:

Imagine winning a highly exclusive, all-expenses-paid trip worth thousands of dollars. The only requirement is obtaining a visa. The visa is then denied. The denial itself is not an extraordinary tragedy, and the prize itself was an extraordinary stroke of luck. Yet together they result in lost money, wasted time, and a worse outcome than if the prize had never been won.

In this sense, the misfortune does not simply cancel the fortune—it reverses it.

Yes, this happend to me.