- Adjective {al-TIL-uh-kwuhnt}
Magisterial, refined, and high-flown in speech or language. Particularly in a manner that might be considered pompous or pretentious.
{ Alti- (L. altus "High") + -loquent (L. loqui "To speak") }
Magisterial, refined, and high-flown in speech or language. Particularly in a manner that might be considered pompous or pretentious.
{ Alti- (L. altus "High") + -loquent (L. loqui "To speak") }
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The volume's passages were, it seemed to Charles, gratuitously elaborate. Comprehending the altiloquent prose he would have likened to attempting to wade through honey
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Jenna's first week at her trendy liberal arts college was enough to disabuse her of her previously-cherished hope that her general quirks and pretensions in life- particularly her proclivity for verbose, altiloquent language- would, in the eyes of her artsy, cliquey peers, outweigh the myriad defects and flaws in her character that had made her a pariah at prior schools
The volume's passages were, it seemed to Charles, gratuitously elaborate. Comprehending the altiloquent prose he would have likened to attempting to wade through honey
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Jenna's first week at her trendy liberal arts college was enough to disabuse her of her previously-cherished hope that her general quirks and pretensions in life- particularly her proclivity for verbose, altiloquent language- would, in the eyes of her artsy, cliquey peers, outweigh the myriad defects and flaws in her character that had made her a pariah at prior schools
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Altocalciphilia is a sexual fetish where the fetish object is shoes, boots, and sandals with high heels. It I generally but not exclusively a heterosexual condition where males are strongly attracted to females who wear high heels usually as a result of important female personalities in their childhood years having worn such footwear. The condition can be a major or a minor one, ranging from a simple preference for women who wear high heels through to the inability to perform the sex act without the female wearing high heels through to desiring only to masturbate or be masturbated with the high heeled footwear. It is in its mild form the most common sexual fetish amongst European and US males.
Having altocalciphilia he always asked his girlfriends to leave their heels on when making out in the sack.
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Loving affection towards one's alternate self (other self) and/or Alter ego of one's own inner and outer being.
Loving affection towards one's alternate self (other self) and/or Alter ego of one's own inner and outer being.
Jenny says her opposite grnder alter ego Qarlton is very attractive. I think she may be an Altererophilia.
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