More Words of the Future

Words that are not yet part of the English language but might someday be:

1. bully logic -- the reasoning that bullies use to justify their actions; also, the logic that is used by apologists for said bullies.
2. cradle envy -- envy directed at parents by childless adults.
3. deimocracy -- rule by terror.
4. drugstore revolutionary -- a person who talks a lot about being a revolutionary but never carries it out in practice.
5. evolutionary dictatorship -- a regime that once embraced Marxism but has gradually "evolved" in a less left-wing but not necessarily more democratic manner.
6. extreme art appreciation -- the notion that any art worth appreciating should not be all that pleasurable to experience.
7. fatwa envy -- envy certain Christians feel for demonstrations of Islamic intolerance.
8. genfem -- genetic female.
9. genmal -- genetic male.
10. global primate change -- what happens when the apes take over.
11. gotcha conservativism -- a philosophy held by conservatives who are more concerned with showing how much more enlightened they are than with actually accomplishing anything useful.
12. gotcha liberalism -- a philosophy held by liberals who are more concerned with showing how much more enlightened they are than with actually accomplishing anything useful.
13. hairshirt art -- art that is based on the theory that any artistic work that is not pleasurable to look at must be great art.
14. leucification -- the process of making someone or transforming one's self into a white person.
15. leucify -- to change one's self or another into a white.
16. notophobia -- fear of the South.
17. political southpaw -- liberal, leftist or one sympathetic to the liberal or the left's point of view.
18. vanity politics -- political beliefs that are driven more by ego than by ideals.
19. vespification -- the process of making someone or transforming one's self into a WASP.
20. vespify -- to make one's self or another into a WASP.

Words of the Present III

1. acerebral -- without a brain.
2. allophilia -- a positive attitude for a group that is not one's own.
3. antipolonism -- a spectrum of hostile attitudes toward Polish people and culture.
4. apocalypse fatigue -- reduced interest in current or potential environmental problems due to frequent dire warnings about those problems.
5. bikini medicine -- medical practice, research, and funding that focuses solely on the female breasts and reproductive system.
6. bozo explosion -- the large number of inept employees that a company ends up with when it hires an incompetent executive, who in turn hires incompetent managers, who then hire incompetent workers.
7. digital immigrants -- people who started to use the Internet and other digital technology as adults.
8. digital natives -- people who grew up with the Internet and other digital technology.
9. diversity fatigue -- a form of mental exhaustion brought on by the constant attention required to ensure a workforce or other group is racially or ethnically diverse.
10. emporiophobia -- fear or mistrust of, or resistance to, free markets.
11. entropy tourism -- travel that features places of decay, neglect, or abandonment.
12. gallery rage -- extreme anger displayed by an art gallery patron when a visit is marred by huge crowds or rude gallery staff.
13. hecatine -- relating to Hecate.
14. heteroclite -- a nonconformist; a person who is not conventional.
15. hydropot -- a water drinker.
16. hypergraphia -- a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write.
17. informavore -- a person who consumes information.
18. laptop zombie -- a laptop user in a public place who is oblivious to everyone and everything except the screen in front of them.
19. librarian chic -- a fashion style that uses elements of, or is inspired by, the styles stereotypically attributed to librarians.
20. mammogenic -- promoting growth of the milk glands.
21. natation -- swimming.
22. necrologue -- obituary.
23. nightpiece -- work of art describing a night scene.
24. noctivagant -- wandering in the night.
25. notonectal -- swimming on the back.
26. nyctograph -- device for recording ideas at night or when not fully awake.
27. nymphology -- study of nymphs.
28. pancake people -- Internet users who read widely, but without depth.
29. panivorous -- bread-eating.
30. popcorn movie -- a motion picture without serious dramatic content, a weighty message, or intellectual depth, which serves simply as enjoyable entertainment.
31. procerity -- tallness; height.
32. proletarian drift -- the tendency for originally upscale products to eventually become popular with the working class or proles.
33. racial battle fatigue -- stress and anxiety caused by constantly dealing with both overtly racist actions and subtle references to one’s race.
34. rainbow ceiling -- business practices and prejudices that create an unseen and unofficial barrier to personal advancement for gay employees.
35. ravenette -- someone with black hair.
36. resistance fatigue -- mental exhaustion brought on by the constant protesting of unpopular government policies.
37. retrophilia -- an intense attraction for things of the past.
38. retrosexual -- a man with an undeveloped aesthetic sense who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance and lifestyle.
39. rhino -- older man in search of a younger woman.
40. ruin porn aka ruins photography -- a recent movement in photography that takes the decline of the built-environment (cities, buildings, infrastructure) as its subject.
41. rustalgia -- nostalgia for the lost world of the American Rust Belt.
42. Sadian -- one who spends his life studying the Marquis de Sade.
43. Tankie -- Stalinist; one who favored the use of tanks in putting down rebellions in Communist regimes.
44. time confetti -- brief pieces of leisure time scattered throughout a person‘s day.
45. transliteracy -- the ability to read and write using multiple media, including traditional print media, electronic devices, and online tools.
46. Turtledove effect -- in a work of alternate history, the implausible insertion of characters or events from the original timeline.
47. vapulation -- flogging.
48. virtue signalling -- using words, actions, or symbols to indicate to other people that you are a good person or that you hold certain moral values.
49. xenocentrism -- the preference for the products, styles, or ideas of someone else's culture rather than of one's own.
50. zombie lie -- a false statement that keeps getting repeated no matter how often it has been refuted.

Words of the Past

1. Adamite -- a man who dresses as Adam did before the Fall.
2. Adam's ale -- water.
3. Adam's disease -- Puritan preacher's term for "curiosity."
4. adulterine -- a child born of an adultress.
5. agonyclite -- a 7th century heretic who refused to kneel but prayed standing; one that refuses to bow to authority.
6. anachorism -- something out of place in reference to a land.
7. andromanic -- lusting after men.
8. Aphrodite's milk -- term given to wine by Aristophanes because it increased lasciviousness.
9. apricate -- to bask in the sun; to sunbathe.
10. artigamous -- newly wed.
11. athanic -- not subject to death.
12. bathykolpian -- having deep cleavage between the breasts; big-breasted.
13. bathykolpic -- deep-bosomed.
14. beasts of venery -- the hart, the hind, the hare, the bear and the wolf.
15. bucranic -- bullheaded.
16. callipygian -- having an attractive backside.
18. carry-castle -- name used by Elizabethan writers for an elephant.
19. cat-Latin -- incoherent or idle talk; bad writing.
20. celibataire -- bachelor.
21. climacterian -- one who is fond of a climax.
22. comediographer -- a writer of comedies.
23. cow-handed -- awkward.
24. cupidity -- inordinate desire; covetousness; sensuality; lust; unlawful or unreasonable longing.
25. curtain-lecture -- reproof given by a wife to her husband in bed.
26. Eve's scork -- the larynx.
27. eviration -- obsolete term for "castration"; loss or deprivation of masculine traits combined with the assumption of feminine traits; a delusion in a male that he has changed into a woman.
28. Evite -- a woman who dresses like Eve did before the Fall; a woman wearing little clothing.
29. five wits -- common wit, imagination, fantasy, estimation and memory.
30. fleshquake -- tremor of the body; a word formed by Ben Jonson in imitation of "earthquake".
31. nelipot -- one that goes barefoot.
32. parthenon -- a maiden's room.
33. pauliped -- small-footed; one that has little feet.
34. peridine -- a rover; a pirate.
35. peripole -- a streetwalker.
36. plebicole -- one that seeks the favor of the common man.
37. pronoia -- foresight; foreseeing.
38. ptochocracy -- government by the poor.
39. Sotadic Zone -- Richard Burton's term for an area of the world where male homosexuality was actively practiced.
40. thelymachy -- a war of women.
41. thelyphantic -- manifestly effeminate.
42. thrion -- fig leaf.
43. tyrophagous -- cheese-eating.
44. Utopian bride -- a woman which presents herself naked to her future spouse in a manner similar to a ceremony described in Thomas More's Utopia.

Words of the Present II

1. burrocracy -- rule of burros; a Mexican writer's term for "bureaucracy."
2. Columbusing -- the process by which a white person discovers something that already exists.
3. cryptozoology -- the study of hidden animals; the study of animals not yet recognized by science.
4. dorsalism -- obsession with women's backs.
5. dorsalist -- one with a passion for women's backs.
6. dracontology -- the study of dragons; cryptozoology.
7. endarkenment -- the opposite of enlightenment.
8. frontalist -- the opposite of a dorsalist.
9. gynic -- womanly.
10. me-ritocracy -- an anonymous Libertarian's term for the type of meritocracy most people seem to really want.
11. muliebrity -- womanhood; femininity.
12. necrolagnia -- necrophilia.
13. racebending -- the practice of hiring an actor for a play, movie or TV show whose race is different than that of the character he or she will be portraying.
14. sapiosexual -- a person who is sexually attracted to smart people.
15. spinach cinema -- movies that are not very exciting or interesting, which one feels obliged to see because they are considered to be educational or otherwise uplifting.
16. Spinnish -- language used by spin doctors and other political operatives.
17. tanorexic -- obsessed with maintaining a permanent dark tan.
18. thanatophilia -- necrophilia.
19. voice novel -- a very long voice mail message.
20. white math -- author David Mura's term for that system of arithmetic which white people use to dismiss non-white claims of injustice by pointing to at least one event in which a nonwhite person was favored and using it as an excuse to dismiss many events in which white people were favored.

British English Words: Parte II

1. quid -- pound (100 new pence).
2. queue -- line of people.
3. reel of cotton -- spool of thread.
4. ring up -- phone.
5. road -- street.
6. roundabout -- traffic circle.
7. salt beef -- corned beef.
8. sweet -- dessert.
9. taps -- faucets.
10. telly -- TV.
11. tights -- panty hose.
12. tin -- can.
13. tobaccionist -- cigarette store.
14. trousers -- pants (men); slacks (women).
15. tube -- subway.
16. underground -- subway.
17. venue -- location.
18. vest -- man's undershirt.
19. waistcoat -- man's vest.
20. wardrobe -- closet.
21. W.C. -- toilet.
22. zed -- Z.

British English Words: Parte I

1. banger -- sausage.
2. bed and breakfast -- room plus breakfast.
3. bent -- dishonest.
4. bespoke -- hand tailored.
5. bob -- former shilling; now 5 new pence.
6. bobby -- policeman.
7. bog -- toilet.
8. bonnet -- (car) hood.
9. boot -- (car) trunk.
10. caravan -- trailer.
11. chemist -- drugstore.
12. chips -- French fries.
13. cinema -- movie theater.
14. civvies -- civilian dress.
15. coach -- long distance bus.
16. crisps -- potato chips.
17. demo -- political demonstration.
18. detached house -- house that stands alone and does not share a wall with another house.
19. dogsbody--someone who does drudge work.
20. dustbin -- garbage can.
21. engaged -- (phone) busy.
22. fag -- cigarette.
23. football -- soccer; rugby.
24. fortnight -- two weeks.
25. frankfurter -- pork sausage.
26. full up -- no more room.
27. gateau -- cake.
28. have a go -- take a turn; try something.
29. hire -- rent.
30. holiday -- vacation.
31. interval -- intermission.
32. ironmonger -- hardware store.
33. kiosk -- booth.
34. knickers -- underpants (ladies).
35. lift -- elevator.
36. loo -- toilet.
37. lower grand floor -- basement.
38. mobile -- cell phone; cell number.
39. mobile phone -- cell phone.
40. nappies -- diapers.
41. newsstall -- newstand.
42. not to worry -- never mind.
43. off the peg -- readymade.
44. overtake -- pass.
45. pants -- underpants (men).
46. pardon? -- what did you say?
47. pavement -- sidewalk.
48. petrol -- gasoline.
49. pillar box -- mail box.
50. post -- mail.

Words of the Present

1. adoxography -- skilled writing about an unimportant subject; good writing about trivial subjects
2. agelast -- person who never laughs
3. ailuromania -- excessive fondness for cats
4. anaxiphilia -- act of falling in love with the wrong person
5. antinomy -- contradiction or opposition, especially between two laws or rules; contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally necessary and reasonable; paradox
6. autodidact -- self-taught person
7. belamour -- glance of love
8. bellitude -- beauty
9. bibliogony -- production and publication of books
10. bibliosopher -- one who gains wisdom from books
11. cingulomania -- strong desire to hold a person in your arms
12. clockless worker -- employee who is willing to work at any time, day or night
13. cognoscenti -- connoisseurs of art, literature or music; those with refined tastes
14. cupboard love -- show of affection motivated by selfishness
15. digitalia -- computer hardware and software and other organs of digital technology, taken as a whole
16. dinosaur wine -- writer Kinky Friedman's term for petroleum or oil
17. gynics -- knowledge of women
18. hoplophobia -- fear of guns
19. lagniappe -- word mainly used in southern Louisiana and Mississippi to mean either a small gift presented by a storeowner to a customer with the customer's purchase or else an extra or unexpected gift or benefit
20. lexiphanes -- person who uses ostentatious language
21. logophilia -- love of words
22. macrobian -- term which describes any organism which has a long life
23. macrologist -- boring conversationalist, usually met at parties
24. mouse potato -- person who spends a lot of time at the computer
25. mulierose -- addicted to the love of women
26. neologist -- person who coins new words
27. neophobia -- fear of anything new
28. noctuary -- record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal
29. petrichor -- pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell
30. philonoist -- seeker of knowledge
31. playback drift -- inability to play back data that has been saved on an obsolete storage medium due to modernization and technological advances.
32. plutography -- book (or, more generally, literary genre) that examines the lifestyles of rich and famous people.
33. preterist -- one who is fond of reliving the past
34. pronoia -- suspicion that the universe is a conspiracy on your behalf; opposite of paranoia
35. sarcology -- study of the soft or fleshy parts of the body
36. Scholar's Mistress -- term used in Fritz Leiber's novel Our Lady of Darkness to refer to a random pile of books and magazines which forms a roughly human shape.
37. sensory miser -- one who begrudges a too-extravagant experience of life
38. sensualist -- someone concerned with gratifying his or her sexual appetite
39. sensuist -- someone who rejoices in sensory experience
40. sophophobia -- fear of learning
41. synesthesia -- stimulation of one sense stimulating another
42. tacenda -- things that should not be mentioned
43. tanquam -- something that only seems to exist
44. temporal provincial -- term used in Michael Crichton's novel Timeline to refer to a person who is both ignorant of the past and proud of his ignorance
45. thanatopsis -- contemplation of death
46. verbivore -- person who devours words
47. vespertine -- during the evening
48. vetanda -- forbidden things
49. videnda -- things that ought to be seen
50. voluptuary -- one whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures and who habitually indulges in (an excess of) sexual activity; sensualist

Oops!

Apparently one of my Words of the Future is a Word of the Present.

Of course, my siblings and I were using that word way back in the 1980s but still...

Mea culpa.

Mea maxima culpa.

Words of the Future

Words that are not yet part of the English language but might someday be:

1. antisocial disease -- disease that brings about social ostracism of its victims.
2. apprehension fatigue -- weariness of endless doomsday predictions.
3. Artificial American -- cyborg or robot of American origin.
4. Boerish -- pro-apartheid.
5. bookoholic -- one addicted to books or reading in general.
6. caudillo complex -- desire for a strong leader.
7. centros -- “centers”; those who believe themselves to be at the center of the universe.
8. cosmedy -- cosmic comedy.
9. culture Nazi -- would-be censor.
10. culturebabble -- cultural equivalent of “psychobabble.”
11. decade envy -- envy of another (usually earlier) generation.
12. ethnomonophrenia -- the notion that all members of a certain ethnic group either think or should think alike.
13. guerocentrism -- a system in which everything is centered around light-skinned people.
14. guerocracy -- rule by light-skinned people.
15. guerophobia -- fear of light-skinned people.
16. instant history -- a tendency to ignore any sort of historical perspective when analyzing the latest news.
17. Karoshi-prone -- prone to death from overwork.
18. libroholic -- bookworm.
19. madonna envy -- envy of pregnant women.
20. mayfly journalism -- journalism that makes little attempt at historical analysis.
21. mayfly politics -- politics that is concerned only with the present day.
22. milkaholic -- someone who likes to drink a lot of milk.
23. moradodinosaurophobia -- fear of purple dinosaurs; especially acute in Gen-Xers.
24. morenophobia -- fear of dark-skinned people.
25. morocracy -- rule of fools.
26. moroculture -- culture of foolishness.
27. New Hidalgoes -- modern folk with same work ethic as the Conquistadors.
28. nohemians -- liberals who define themselves by what they DON'T indulge in.
29. Old Romans -- ones who believe in traditional values.
30. otros -- “others”; those who are not considered to be at the center of the universe; outsiders.
31. reconquistador -- one who is obsessed with regaining long-lost territory.
32. Roanoked -- absorbed into the surrounding population.
33. rubialatry -- worship of blondes.
34. sincaras -- faceless ones
35. sluritans -- Puritans who like to slander other people.
36. spitwater -- a puritanical Latina.
37. venereal killer -- a person who deliberately spreads or chooses to spread a fatal venereal disease.
38. venereal roulette -- having sex with a succession of unknown partners without using a condom.
39. zopilote journalism -- celebrity journalism that focuses primarily on dead people.
40. zopilote politics -- the use of dead people to advance a political agenda.