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Definitions by ParadiseKingdom777

Praxisidentism

Pronunciation: prak-sis-IDEN-tiz-əm
Part of speech: noun

Definition:
The tendency to turn what someone does, practices, experiences, or is attracted to into an identity of who/what they are—treating actions, conditions, roles, or relations as identity itself instead of just actions (as if a verb or predicate became a noun describing the whole person).

Etymology (optional):
From Greek praxis (“practice/action”) + ident- (“identity”) + -ism (“pattern/tendency/doctrine”)
Example 1:
“Being a carpenter is something he does, not his entire essence—praxisidentism turns roles into identity.”

Example 2:
“Saying ‘I have a disability’ vs ‘I am disabled’ can be different framings; praxisidentism treats the predicate as the whole person.”

Example 3:
“She likes gaming, but now it’s her entire personality—classic praxisidentism.”

Example 4:

“She does the labor of caring for the home and family, but she rejects being reduced to ‘h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶wife’ as if that role were her whole identity.”

Pecunapostate

Pronunciation: peh-KYOO-nuh-PAH-stayt
Part of speech: noun

Definition:
A person who renounces money-primacy—rejecting the idea that money should determine dignity, moral worth, or social status, and resisting systems that make people dependent on money for basic life—not money motivated.

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If you want, I can also add a short etymology line to each (UD sometimes likes that), or tune the tone to be more punchy/less academic.
Example 1:
“He refuses to treat wealth as proof of virtue. He’s a pecunapostate because he doesn't judge others by the amount of wealth/money that they have.”

Example 2:
“After years of chasing cash and status, she became a pecunapostate and focused on service and mutual aid.”

Lucrarenunciant

Pronunciation: loo-kruh-ren-OOHN-see-uhnt
Part of speech: noun

Definition:
A person who renounces profit-seeking as a lifestyle—someone who refuses to treat financial gain as the goal—especially the highest goal, and prioritizes ethical, spiritual, or communal goods over profit. A lucrarenunciant person is not someone who is money motivated or boastful about the things they own.
Example 1:
“He turned down the promotion because it required exploiting people—total lucrarenunciant move.”

Example 2:
“She could’ve chased big money, but she chose community projects instead. Lucrarenunciant.”

Hagioscension

Hagioscension is a Christian term for the final event when Jesus returns, the dead in Christ are raised, and the living believers are gathered up and transformed together. Hagioscension is the upgathering and is a term intended to replace the word “rapture" as a response to the pre-tribulation rapture misconception.

Etymology:

Hagios (Greek: holy, set-apart, saint)
ascension (rising, going up)
Hagioscension literally: “the ascent of the holy ones.”
Instead of arguing over rapture timelines, we just say we’re waiting for the Hagioscension.

Patriopretensism

Patriopretensism or patriopretensionism (more Latinate, longer) is the performative or strategic imitation of patriotism—using national symbols, slogans, or “love of country” talk to gain status, power, or moral cover, while acting in ways that undermine the country’s actual well-being. This is also described as the ideology or habit of feigned patriotism, especially when used to justify predatory politics, silence dissent, or launder personal ambition as “national loyalty.”

Signs of patriopretensism:

Flags/slogans as a substitute for real civic duty
“Patriot” as a brand, not a responsibility

Selective outrage: “love of country” only when convenient

Treating criticism as “treason” to shut down accountability

Etymology:
patrio- = fatherland / nation (Latin patria)
pretens- = “pretend/claim” (Latin praetendere → “to put forward/pretend/claim”)
-ism = ideology / practice
Example:
“Dude screams about love of country but supports foreign aid and wars in other countries —pure patriopretensism.”

Example:
“Every time accountability shows up, they call it unpatriotic and accuse them of 'hating our country'—patriopretensism.”

Ecclesiokratocaptism

The process or condition in which a church (or other supposedly independent institution) becomes captured by state power-functioning as an arm of the state rather than a sovereign moral/cultural body with self-determination.

Ordered etymology (matching the event sequence): 1. ecclesio- (church / assembly) 2. krato- (state power / rule) 3. capt- (to seize capture) 4. -ism (doctrine, system, condition) So the word "reads" as: church + state-power + capture condition/system.
EXAMPLE 1:

Ecclesiokratocaptism has destroyed the integrity of the Catholic Church in China which is now under state control.

EXAMPLE 2:
The Roman Catholic Church has legalism problems but one of the main benefits of the idea of a Pope is that it makes the Church not only more unified but also less ecclesiokratocaptist.

Ptōchomisanthrōpist

Definition:
A person who despises or stigmatizes the poor and someone who believes poor people are inferior, morally at fault for their poverty, and less worthy of dignity, respect, or compassion often leading to discrimination.

Etymology:
From Greek roots: ptōchos (“poor”) + mis- (“hatred”) + anthrōpos (“human/person”) + -ist (“one who practices/believes”).
Literal sense: “one who hates poor people.”
Example 1:
“Calling homeless peoplelazy’ and saying they deserve it is pure ptōchomisanthrōpism—stop dehumanizing them.”

Example 2:
“He talks about ‘personal responsibility’ like a weapon, but it’s really just ptōchomisanthrōpist contempt.”

Example 3:
“She supports policies that punish poverty and then claims the poor are ‘less worthy’ for staying poor—classic ptōchomisanthrōpist mentality.”