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the quality of being clear or transparent. It can be used in various contexts:
Physical Clarity: In a literal sense, pellucidity describes something that allows light to pass through, like clear water or a transparent material.
Figurative Clarity: In a metaphorical or abstract sense, pellucidity refers to the clarity and ease of understanding in language, thought, or expression. For example, a pellucid explanation or writing is one that is easy to understand and free of ambiguity.
Physical Clarity: In a literal sense, pellucidity describes something that allows light to pass through, like clear water or a transparent material.
Figurative Clarity: In a metaphorical or abstract sense, pellucidity refers to the clarity and ease of understanding in language, thought, or expression. For example, a pellucid explanation or writing is one that is easy to understand and free of ambiguity.
Boss: Your cubicles are now installed with pellucidity, so I can know which one of you keeps taking the "67 signs you are married to Chewbacca in a parallel universe quiz"
4 year old kid: ABCs are too hard to understand, but if it was taught with skibidi toilet videos I could understand it with pellucidity
13 year old: How do you know that word? And it's subway surfers gameplay for me for pellucidity
Stereotypical middle-aged man: ...It's stock market for me
4 year old kid: ABCs are too hard to understand, but if it was taught with skibidi toilet videos I could understand it with pellucidity
13 year old: How do you know that word? And it's subway surfers gameplay for me for pellucidity
Stereotypical middle-aged man: ...It's stock market for me
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Get the Pellucidity mug.A basement demon is a common yet vague term for the "Demons" or monsters that hunt you in the basement or a dark area or room after you turned off the lights in that area. Basically, it is a fear of something hunting you in the dark which makes people run for their lives after switching of the lights.
Related: Nyctophobia
Related: Nyctophobia
"Bro I had a near escape from the basement demon yesterday"
"me too"
"what's a basement demon?"
"Did you spawn in the world as an adult or do you seriously not know what it means"
"me too"
"what's a basement demon?"
"Did you spawn in the world as an adult or do you seriously not know what it means"
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Get the Basement Demon mug.A Vsauce question is a question that questions reality, derived from popular and arguably the best YouTuber VSauce who commonly says it (Examples include: "Or is it?" "Or is he?" "Or was it?")
VSauce: The nuclear codes are with you, Mr President
President: Yes, yes
VSauce: OR IS IT?
President: OH NO ONE OF THE VSAUCE QUESTIONS!! WAIT WHERE IS IT!!!
President: Yes, yes
VSauce: OR IS IT?
President: OH NO ONE OF THE VSAUCE QUESTIONS!! WAIT WHERE IS IT!!!
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Get the vsauce question mug.When a story has a moral or message that is either too simplistic for the complexity of the story or so strange that it doesn’t quite fit. The term is a writer slang and has nothing to do with Aesop becoming a space whale (boo!) other than it's derivation of name
Publisher: .. And what's the ending of the story?
Writer: Uhh.. the Octopus King donates it to an alien in Saturn who is very poor and owns a space pizzeria moral is "always donate to the poor".
Publisher: You made a total of 2874 wars and 78 billion universes destruct and a total of 420 trillion people die and the Octopus King to lose all his friends and family, be alienated by everyone, locked in a prison for 5 centuries, become blind and get the cold side removed from his pillow just for him to donate the treasure that could have made him the all-powerful universe ruler to an alien he has no relation with
Writer: Yessir
Publisher: that's such a Space Whale Aesop
Writer: Uhh.. the Octopus King donates it to an alien in Saturn who is very poor and owns a space pizzeria moral is "always donate to the poor".
Publisher: You made a total of 2874 wars and 78 billion universes destruct and a total of 420 trillion people die and the Octopus King to lose all his friends and family, be alienated by everyone, locked in a prison for 5 centuries, become blind and get the cold side removed from his pillow just for him to donate the treasure that could have made him the all-powerful universe ruler to an alien he has no relation with
Writer: Yessir
Publisher: that's such a Space Whale Aesop
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Get the Space Whale Aesop mug.A dialogue technique where characters tell each other information they already know, but they audience don't, for solely the audience's benefit. It is a writer slang.
"As you know, Bob, we're on a spaceship hurtling towards the sun and if we don’t fix the hyperdrive in five minutes, we'll be dead. But let's talk about our high school years."
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Get the As You Know, Bob mug.An abrupt, quick and often ridiculous shift from a serious manner to a trivial or funny manner in writing or speech, to invoke humour/humor (however you like it to be called)
"The hero gave a very strong-worded and passionate speech about the fate of humanity, only to trip over his shoelaces right afterward. Classic bathos."
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Get the Bathos mug.A sudden, favorable resolution of events in a story; a term coined by J.R.R. Tolkien to describe a "good catastrophe" that brings a happy ending.
"Just when all hope seemed lost, the hero’s pet hamster activated the hidden self-destruct button on the villain’s base. Eucatastrophe for the win!"
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