invalidish

when a person feels sick or like an invalid

How are you today, Tom?

I'm feeling pretty invalidish.

by frogynutspants January 13, 2009

invalidary

an institution where invalids and sick people are treated.

The warrior was invalided home and soon admitted to a well-known invalidary.

by uttam maharjan June 26, 2010

Invalidation Bias

A bias where one systematically invalidates sources of opposing information—attacking credibility, questioning motives, dismissing expertise—rather than engaging the information itself. Invalidation Bias doesn't need to refute claims; it just needs to discredit the source. If the source can't be trusted, the information doesn't need to be considered.

"He never addressed her arguments—just attacked her credentials, her funding, her personal life. Invalidation Bias: when you can't beat the message, discredit the messenger. The information remains unaddressed, but that's the point. Invalidate first, think never."

by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026

It wouldn't invalidate my position

If I did.

Hym "It wouldn't invalidate my position if I did. So not super relevant. Like, I wrote a whole thing about the incoherence of externally imposed karmic empathy and the faulty logic behind 'using someone's own logic against them' and you took the wrong lesson from it and unironically did the criticism of the thing I was writing about... So, you know... Dumb. Dumb and bad."

by Hym Iam December 18, 2025