cabot wonder's definitions

Roomnesia

A psychological disease characterized by walking into a room and completely forgetting why you walked into the room. Common reaction: standing there, trying to retrace your steps, thinking back to what you were doing BEFORE entering the room and, in general, trying to reconstruct what might have motivated you to go to this particular room at this particular time. (Often, the answer comes to you later, when you're not thinking about it.)

Roomnesia is a psychological disease characterized by walking into a room and completely forgetting why you walked into the room. Common reaction: standing there, trying to retrace your steps, thinking back to what you were doing BEFORE entering the room and, in general, trying to reconstruct what might have motivated you to go to this particular room at this particular time. (Often, the answer comes to you later, when you're not thinking about it.)

by Cabot Wonder July 2, 2009

deja scru

The odd feeling that you've had sex with someone, but can't remember meeting them.

I met this woman Jane at a party and got that strange sense of deja scru.

by Cabot Wonder July 13, 2009

overgifting

Giving an excessive amount of presents to someone, to the extent that they feel uncomfortable receiving them. (See also "deafgifting.")

When Ted and Mary came for dinner, they brought wine, flowers, candy, a crystal bowl, strawberries and a set of coasters. We had simply requested a bottle of wine, so their overgifting made us feel somewhat overwhelmed.

by Cabot Wonder January 5, 2010

parkoincidence

You're parked in a vast parking lot (shopping mall, sports venue, etc.), and you cannot see anyone else in the entire parking lot. But somehow, just seconds before you get to YOUR car, the driver of the car NEXT to your car arrives (usually with a shopping cart to unload or a baby to put in a car seat), thus preventing you from entering YOUR car.

Parkoincidence is when you're parked in a vast parking lot (shopping mall, sports venue, etc.), and you cannot see anyone else in the entire parking lot. But somehow, just seconds before you get to YOUR car, the driver of the car NEXT to your car arrives (usually with a shopping cart to unload or a baby to put in a car seat), thus preventing you from entering YOUR car.

by Cabot Wonder July 2, 2009

deja view

The weird coincidence that happens when you decide to watch a repeat of a tv program that you've seen only (parts of) once before, and it turns out to be that one episode that you've already seen.

I've seen Seinfeld only once, so I thought I'd try to get into it watch the repeats ... turned on the tv and it was the one episode I'd already seen. Talk about deja view.

by Cabot Wonder July 13, 2009

circumvacuity

Circumvacuity is the odd feeling you get when you're walking along and you come to an intersection where a car is waiting to turn, and just as you walk around the rear of the car, it leaves, and you find yourself walking around ... nothing.

I got a terrible case of circumvacuity at the intersection of Main Street and High, today; so bad, in fact, that I had trouble walking a straight line.

by Cabot Wonder July 4, 2009

semi-colonoscopy

Examining and editing text for the overuse of semi-colons.

His writing was concise; it was lyrical; but it had too many semi-colons. It required a semi-colonoscopy.

by cabot wonder June 17, 2010