A word or phrase that sounds normal to most people but secretly holds multiple layers of meaning—emotional, historical, relational—only unlocked by specific people who “get it.”
It’s like a double entendre mixed with an inside joke and a shared language between best friends, old coworkers, or your emotionally aware future self.
from poly- (many) and sonance (resonance or sound), to describe language that compresses multiple emotional meanings into a single communicative gesture.
It’s like a double entendre mixed with an inside joke and a shared language between best friends, old coworkers, or your emotionally aware future self.
from poly- (many) and sonance (resonance or sound), to describe language that compresses multiple emotional meanings into a single communicative gesture.
George saying “It’s the least I can do.” is a great polysonance that holds multiple meanings. It’s a perfectly acceptable response to gratitude for a basic task but to Rob and Jane it also communicate a quiet act of resistance, self-recognition, and a subtle flex that he could do more but won’t unless it’s appreciated. That polysonance is such a quick way to share layers of coded meaning to the right people.
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Get the Polymop mug.It wasn't he-said-she-said 10 years ago and if she is polyamorous her husband now has no reason to be surprised and is motivated to lie.
Hym "You didn't spend years defending the act because it wasn't true. She also said she is polyamorous. Which means fucking the retard isn't sounds for her husband to leave her. Kendra McKeefry fucked that retard. That is a fact. You are perfectly fine with me having my life destroyed. She should have went to prison for 15 years like the other women who molested retards did. You are blindly defending women against the under-class and you are sub-human filth both for doing it and having an under-class."
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Get the Polyamorous mug.a term which's definition is constantly confused with "Open-relationships" - a state where a couple extend the boundaries of their relationship beyond what is usually socially acceptable by allowing one or more members to explore intimacy outside of the relationship.
Polyamory differs from this in the way that outside-intimacy is invited into the relationship, and is shared mutually between all members. Polyamorous couples typically have three members and all are as equally involved in each other's lives & as committed to each other as monogamous couples are.
WARNING: abusers often use polyamory as an excuse to cheat on their mono partner (usually a woman) by convincing them that this is the only way that they'll be able to stay together, and that sexual freedom is what they need in order to be happy because it's natural for them etc. The abuser tells their partner that feelings of jealousy, resentment, abandonment, inferiority, or insecurity in a poly relationship is "normal" and that they shouldn't think too much about it. The victim's personality tends to become withdrawn and depressed due to the treatment from their abuser, but they'll still don the polyamorous label and pay the abuse forward by comforting / reassuring other poly-victims that their negative feelings are also completely normal and healthy for their relationship and shouldn't be thought too much about. this is why defining labels correctly is so important.
Polyamory differs from this in the way that outside-intimacy is invited into the relationship, and is shared mutually between all members. Polyamorous couples typically have three members and all are as equally involved in each other's lives & as committed to each other as monogamous couples are.
WARNING: abusers often use polyamory as an excuse to cheat on their mono partner (usually a woman) by convincing them that this is the only way that they'll be able to stay together, and that sexual freedom is what they need in order to be happy because it's natural for them etc. The abuser tells their partner that feelings of jealousy, resentment, abandonment, inferiority, or insecurity in a poly relationship is "normal" and that they shouldn't think too much about it. The victim's personality tends to become withdrawn and depressed due to the treatment from their abuser, but they'll still don the polyamorous label and pay the abuse forward by comforting / reassuring other poly-victims that their negative feelings are also completely normal and healthy for their relationship and shouldn't be thought too much about. this is why defining labels correctly is so important.
friend: hey are you okay? is David treating you badly?
victim: no, he's a sweetheart.. I'm just being selfish because he's on a date with another girl and I'm irrationally upset that he's not hanging out with me instead. it's just the nature of polyamory I guess haha.
friend: uh.. that's not polyamory, dude. he's just having an affair and manipulated you into consenting to it. If your relationship was polyamorous, you'd be on that date with her too.
victim: no, he's a sweetheart.. I'm just being selfish because he's on a date with another girl and I'm irrationally upset that he's not hanging out with me instead. it's just the nature of polyamory I guess haha.
friend: uh.. that's not polyamory, dude. he's just having an affair and manipulated you into consenting to it. If your relationship was polyamorous, you'd be on that date with her too.
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Get the polyamory mug.Polynovant (Common Noun) Poly- (Greek: polus; Many) and -novant (Invented Latin: novus; New)
A person who is learning and educating themself in a wide array of interests, subjects and crafts.
Polynovants are essentially Polymaths-in-the-Making
A person who is learning and educating themself in a wide array of interests, subjects and crafts.
Polynovants are essentially Polymaths-in-the-Making
I have Been teaching myself basic physics, maths, philosophy, and French. I am somewhat of a polynovant!
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The quality of being a polynovant, or the quality of behaving like a polynovant.
The quality of being a polynovant, or the quality of behaving like a polynovant.
Hello Mr. and Mrs. Smith! I must tell you, Laura has been rather polynovantine recently! She's been doing great not just in academics, but also has been teaching herself German on the side. It's brilliant, honestly.
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