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Definitions by Englebert Hedgehog

homework hemiola 

When one does at least one and a half times as much homework as he or she expects.
Lazy Student 1: Wow, you finished your English paper!
Lazy Student 2: Yeah, I had a homework hemiola on Tuesday.

bergiosis 

The tendency to process and express ideas in an over-systematic fashion (i.e. Alban Berg).
The mathematician's bergiosis was evident ever since he began to order coffee in semantics matrices.