Apore 

A rotten apple.

Apores are dangerous to consume.

Apore by Noteventrollingcsgo February 18, 2024

aporofisis 

Saying of course that is or of course this is. Can also be of course this is that or of course that is that.

“Did you know that bananas have potassium?” “aporofisis!”

aporofisis by gothyt May 22, 2024

Aporgonaphobia

Aporgonaphobia — the irrational fear or anxiety of being unable to release sexual tension or ejaculate, especially during periods of intentional abstinence such as No Nut November.

During No Nut November, Mark’s Aporgonaphobia kicked in hard — every time someone mentioned the challenge, he broke into a nervous sweat and clutched his phone like it was his lifeline.

Aporgonaphobia by MoshiWoshi November 10, 2025

Aporophobic Slurs

Verbal weapons that stigmatize and dehumanize people living in poverty, reinforcing their perceived worthlessness and otherness. These slurs include classic terms like "bum," "hobo," "welfare queen," "leeches," or "street trash," as well as more modern, bureaucratic euphemisms that serve the same function, like "service-resistant" (implying a homeless person is stubbornly choosing their fate) or "non-compliant." They reduce complex human beings and systemic failures to caricatures of laziness, dependency, and filth, making it psychologically easier to justify withholding help or support.

Example: A local news segment interviews a businessman about a new homeless shelter proposal. He opposes it, saying, "We can't keep catering to these drug-addled vagrants who just want a handout. They'll destroy the neighborhood." The slurs "drug-addled vagrants" and "handout" do not describe individuals; they invoke an aporophobic stereotype that frames poverty as a personal moral failing and charity as enabling bad behavior, thus shutting down any empathetic or systemic discussion of solutions. Aporophobic Slurs.

Aporophobic Slurs by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Aporophobia

A term coined by philosopher Adela Cortina, meaning the fear, aversion, and hostility directed specifically toward poor people and poverty itself. It is distinct from classism or economic inequality; it is the visceral disdain for the state of being poor and for those who embody it. Aporophobia is the sentiment behind blaming the poor for their circumstances, viewing them as lazy, dirty, or morally suspect, and justifying their neglect or punishment. It is the emotional engine that drives policies which criminalize homelessness, cut social safety nets, and design public spaces to be hostile to the unhoused.

Example: A city council passes an ordinance making it illegal to sit or lie on downtown sidewalks, installs benches with anti-homeless armrests, and advocates say this is about "public cleanliness and safety." The underlying motivation is aporophobia: a desire to remove the visible evidence and human presence of poverty from the sight of the wealthy, not to solve poverty. The poor person is treated not as a citizen in need, but as an aesthetic and moral pollutant.

Aporophobia by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Aporophobic Bigotry

The institutional and systemic manifestation of aporophobia—the policies, laws, and social norms designed to punish, exclude, and marginalize poor people. It is the belief system codified into action: that poverty is a contagion to be contained, not a condition to be alleviated; that the poor are a drain on society rather than its most vulnerable members. This bigotry is evident in voter ID laws that disenfranchise the poor, cash bail systems that jail people for poverty, "poor doors" in housing developments, and the underfunding of public schools in low-income districts. It is a structural hostility that blames individuals for systemic outcomes.

Example: A state legislature drastically cuts funding for public transportation in urban centers while increasing subsidies for suburban highways. When challenged, a legislator states, "People who use buses don't pay much in taxes anyway. Let them figure it out." This is aporophobic bigotry: it actively dismantles the infrastructure of mobility for the poor (who rely on buses to get to work) while investing in infrastructure for the affluent, viewing the economic contributions and needs of the poor as negligible and unworthy of public investment. It is policy as punishment for being poor.

Aporophobic Bigotry by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Aporandomia

The cognitive tendency to perceive randomness, chaos, and meaninglessness even where genuine patterns, structures, or meanings exist. It is the conceptual opposite of apophenia (the tendency to perceive patterns in random noise). Where the apophenic sees faces in clouds and conspiracies in coincidence, the aporandomic sees only clouds when there are faces, only coincidence when there is conspiracy, only noise when there is signal. It's a form of chronic pattern-blindness that dismisses genuine connections as illusory, real structures as imagined, and meaningful correlations as mere chance. In debates, aporandomia manifests as the reflexive rejection of any proposed pattern as "just randomness" without proper investigation.

Example: "Despite a decade of data showing climate trends, his aporandomia had him convinced it was just weather—he literally couldn't see the pattern right in front of him."

Aporandomia by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026