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Yes Elvira, the gnosophile, was also a big time trivia nerd -- I mean of course she was being trivia nerd sort of goes with the territory of being a gnosophile.
by MoribundMurdoch September 18, 2020
Get the Gnosophile mug.Partaking in datalatry; worshipping data; especially in the case when a researcher engages in data dredging wherein they re-analyze their data until they get the statistically significant result they want & then despite the fact that their data has no true correlation with the question they are addressing, they still cite it as the answer to a problem -- data in this case becomes a false idol.
The survey study on whether one is happier if one becomes a parent was datalatrous humbug. No matter whether the data indicates that more people are happier being parents or not, it cannot properly answer the question. This is because it cannot study parents who became and never were parents at the same time. It also cannot study how those who choose not to become parents would have felt if they did. Finitude in the end is what blocks researchers from coming to a conclusive answer in this tangible world.
by MoribundMurdoch August 31, 2022
Get the Datalatrous mug.I cannot believe she made an AR-15 out of a plushie doll of Sarah Palin -- what incredible hoplodaedaly.
by MoribundMurdoch September 23, 2022
Get the Hoplodaedaly mug.A form of emotional suffering that arises from dwelling on the shadow memory of an idealized life with someone who was never yours the ache of recalling a lost future that existed only in outline, imagined yet unrealizable.
He knew this feeling well, the sharp pang of adumbral mnemalgia; nothing was worse than dwelling on the memory of an idealized life with someone who would never be his.
by MoribundMurdoch November 30, 2025
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A person who becomes unusually or excessively obsessed with studying fecal matter, often working in fields such as microbiology, gastroenterology, or nutrition research.
A person who becomes unusually or excessively obsessed with studying fecal matter, often working in fields such as microbiology, gastroenterology, or nutrition research.
She started as a microbiologist, but after her third grant on gut bacteria, she turned into a total Pooaboo.
by MoribundMurdoch December 2, 2025
Get the Pooaboo mug.1. Cynocentrism is a dominant or exclusive focus on dogs in theory or practice; or to the advocacy of this.1 Anything can be considered cynocentric when it is concerned exclusively with a doggies' (or a dog's) point of view
2.(political philosophy) A dog-centred, as opposed to human-centred, value system.
3. An ethical viewpoint that extends inherent value to all doggy life, regardless of its sentience.
Etymology
"Cyno" comes from the Greek word meaning “dog”
2.(political philosophy) A dog-centred, as opposed to human-centred, value system.
3. An ethical viewpoint that extends inherent value to all doggy life, regardless of its sentience.
Etymology
"Cyno" comes from the Greek word meaning “dog”
An individual's obsession with cynocentrism sometimes leads one to believe that a doggy's death, in a film, is much sadder than a human's death in a film.
by MoribundMurdoch October 2, 2020
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2. Predicting the future by drinking an excessive amount of margaritas
2. Predicting the future by drinking an excessive amount of margaritas
Ines's Margaritamancy is really impressive. She really thinks she's predicting the future when in actuality she's just relaying to us what just happened via garbled speech.
by MoribundMurdoch November 15, 2020
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