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user-inactivated  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What word makes you happy?

Pareidolia: a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern where none actually exists.

Mondegreen: a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning.

Troglodyte: a word that can be used in so many wonderful ways

Cerulean: just saying it makes me feel like a bright blue ocean

Haploid: term used when a cell has half the usual number of chromosomes. A normal eukaryote organism is composed of diploid cells, one set of chromosomes from each parent. However, after meiosis, the number of chromosomes in gametes is halved

Parthenogenesis: a form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization.

Skeuomorph: a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues from structures that were necessary in the original

Peripatetic: traveling from place to place, especially working or based in various places for relatively short periods

Opsimath: a person who begins, or continues, to study or learn late in life

Ecdysiast: An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper

Monotreme: mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials (Metatheria) and placental mammals (Eutheria). The only surviving examples of monotremes are all indigenous to Australia and New Guinea, although there is evidence that they were once more widespread.

Grok: understand (something) intuitively or by empathy (Robert Heinlein)

Synchronicity: the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.

Synesthesia: the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.