ignorement

ignorement n ignore + suffix ment; cf. treatment, excitement - a noun that signifies ignoring something or somebody, corresponding to the verb ignore, but different from ignorance (which is derived from ignore, but has a different meaning, "lack of knowledge").

I hoped to receive forgiveness but instead was met with suspicion and ignorement.

Your son's continuous ignorement of his civil duties needs to be noticed and reprimanded.

The government shows the same ignorement towards human lives as towards human rights.

by Mikhail Epstein November 2, 2003

incrementalism

The slippery slope that often causes generally principled people to slide into unethical behavior.

Although we have all come to understand that the Fraudster in Chief has no internal ethics compass to begin with, it seems more likely that many of the lifelong public servants who wound up in his thugsphere fell victim to what philosopher Jonathan Glover describes as the following process: “Incrementalism is how we slide into participation by imperceptible degrees so there is never the sense of a frontier being crossed.”

by Dr Bunnygirl November 12, 2019

Incrementalism

The philosphy of acheiving great things in a series of many small steps.

There have been many incrementalist designers who have taken years to perfect their visions.

by Edd Rayner February 11, 2004

incrementation

the term for "increment" after 6 months of consecutively getting crunk 3-4 days out of the week. Incrementation is the product of learning more complex words while losing your brain's natural ability to pronounce them do to alcohol and drugs. It is synonymous with signification, examinaplicability, groundification, multiplicability-ness, and using words like atbrosphere and ill nanas in an environmental science research paper.

John, tell me the incrementation on the graduated cylinder, I really want to bust a nut on this lab report.

The incrementation on the posterior node imparts a subtle irregularity with modern geological constructs, and the overall validity of paleontology as a well-founded institution!

by dr kenneth noisewater May 10, 2009

Ignorent

How ignorant people spell the word 'ignorant'.

An ignorant person may have the Facebook status: "Y ppl so ignorent???"

by DJ Buttaskotch August 21, 2010

incremental anal

Slowly taking it up the ass over a period of time so that you do not feel the effects of an invasion of your personal liberty or of that of your distinct social group.

Wow, that OPD raid sucked. But what do people think. They've let corporate America fuck them up the ass for years for years without saying anything as their individual freedoms were slowly eroded. It's like incremental anal.

by pcdbob October 30, 2011

incremental morale degradation

A step by step reduction in the psychological condition of an individual or group.

Despite being fully capable of success, Joe went through incremental morale degradation over the period of several years and no longer wanted to succeed.

Incremental morale degradation struck the heart of the soccer team. What started as confidence and hope for an easy win turned into a psychological train wreck.

They used incremental morale degradation techniques against the troops. Surrender seemed like the only option.

by Ontological June 24, 2018