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Selective hearing

This can be defined as when a person only responds to specific instructions, words or sentences.

This mostly applies to toddlers and young children. Some children would ignore a call from an adult but would immediately respond when the adult offered them a treat
E.g selective hearing :
The boy only responds to"come and eat".
by Reuby24 August 24, 2019
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Selective Lyricism

When people only sing the popular lyrics of a trending song to look cool.
"Cool" girl: Certified loverboy certified pedophiles! I LOVE KENDRICK LAMAR
Person: Why're you using Selective Lyricism"? Sing the whole song?
"Cool" girl: I don't know the whole song. I just like this part.
Person: All for clout.

Example 2:
Girl: THEY NOT LIKE US *3, *gibberish until the next "THEY NOT LIKE US"
Boy 1: Why isn't she singing the rest bro? She told she listens to KDot.
Boy 2: MAn she's using "Selective Lyricism" to fit in. Bet she can't decode this song.
Boy 1: Yeah i wonder if she knows that it's a Disstrack.
Girl: THEY NOT LIKE US!
by Hurt Cobain July 6, 2024
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Dessert Selectivity

Noun: The culinary problem of having unlimited wants and needs for after dinner sweets but only a finite number of choices.
Don't get mad at me for eating the last piece of homemade apple pie, you had plenty of time to eat it but instead you used poor dessert selectivity and chose to eat a handful of tootsie rolls.
by JEB_EDC January 10, 2014
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selective addiction

The moment when you have mountaining amounts of college assignments, which causes you to be less addicted to your smartphone whilst making you paradoxically more addicted to caffeine — whether in the form of coffee drinks or Tombocantuxin caffeine pills
During finals week, my selective addiction kicked in; I barely touched my phone but couldn’t get enough coffee to power through all those assignments!
by Emotional Cruiser October 18, 2025
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Selective Reader

When you’re in an online argument and someone only mentions a part of your argument that they can use against you to make it seem like you lost is a selective reader.
I was in an argument with someone Twitter who only used some parts of my texts to counter argue. What a selective reader!
by Memes do ur mom November 24, 2023
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by johnny noxville July 28, 2021
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