22 definitions by BabuGeorge
by BabuGeorge May 29, 2017
An intense longing for love; it is the antonym of philophobia, which is the fear of love. Philophilic individuals have either overcome the fear of attachment or risk it.
She just loved to love. It seemed love itself was her object of love. She was infected by philophilia.
by BabuGeorge March 17, 2018
A reading disorder causing people to obsess about reading and what they read, for fear of the adverse consequences of knowledge gained by reading. The consequence is a feeling that you know way too much while you're bloated with sheer ignorance. Quite akin to anorexia.
by BabuGeorge September 30, 2018
Someone who demands citation for everything. A Citation Nazi will require you to provide sources of reference for your own original inventions, widely accepted knowledge, and even for your self-reflections.
I wrote in my physics term paper that the Earth revolves around the Sun. My professor returned it asking to provide citations. He wanted my friend to cite a source for her statement "I believe aliens live among us". Such a Citation Nazi!
by BabuGeorge May 25, 2014
My urge to text her is so much so that it cannot even wait until I receive a reply for my previous text. I cannot eat, sleep, or talk to someone else before texting her. I guess I am suffering from a condition called hypertextia.
by BabuGeorge June 11, 2019
Retro-innovation. Innovation that happens when people resist change or when they go back to a state before the change was brought in. Remember, standard definitions of innovation is built around change and consider resistance to change anti-innovative.
People are increasingly going back to the good old days. Retrovation is evident in many new products that we use. Organic, fertilizer free farming is popular again. At the very least, we apply retro-filters on our digital images when we cannot get back to the real bygones. Retrovert has actually become a personality type, just like introvert and extrovert.
by BabuGeorge April 29, 2015