Superficialism

The art of strictly considering people based on their physical appearance, and/or for their material possessions.

Jennifer only dates guys over 6’5. Tom could be an educated rock star with a great sense of humor, but he’s 6’1, so he is not good enough for her. Jennifer’s superficialism knows no bounds.

by Corporal America November 4, 2020

Specificiphilia

A paranoia related to design specifications, giving the sufferer a compunction to eliminate any and all vagueness in what the client thinks they want, and remove any and all possible ambiguity.

Client: I want tight facebook and twitter integration.
Designer: Having automatic sharing is a very very bad idea and pisses people off, it should be opt-in based on each individual action.
Client: But that's what I meant.
Designer: Just covering my bases; specificiphilia, you know?

by bedstraw November 15, 2011

Spedification

Process of Becoming A SPED Student.

Homer you are so fuxed up in da head i have to put you into the Special Ed Classes.

Pardon?

by gtkSpeRt December 27, 2003

soporific

A movie so bad it makes you fall asleep.

That shitty movie was soporific.

by Windex December 11, 2004

spermification

the process of sperm delivering to the ovary

the spermification process is cool!

by theking011 December 9, 2008

non-specific encouraging noises

sounds made by government officials when interviewing a member of the public, intended to convey empathy but promising nothing.

As she listened to the refugee's heart-wrenching story, the immigration officer made non-specific encouraging noises.

by wellwell January 29, 2009

inverse specificity law

A natural law that dictates that the depth and accuracy of your task description is inversely proportional to the importance of the task. You will be given a ten-page written specification on preparing an invitation for five customers to come to morning coffee, a tax audit report will be requested in an email consisting of a single paragraph, while a request to revise the organization's entire cost structure will be delivered verbally in a single sentence.

CEO: Bernie, our database manager left and we need a report of all customers who bought semi-spleeted widgets in the northwest region since the beginning of the month. There's a potentially fatal fault and we need to do a product recall.
Bernie: Sure, right away! What's the product code for semi-spleeted widgets, and what's the region code?
CEO: Dunno. The database manager left. But it's all in the database. Just do it.
Bernie: Hmmm... the inverse specificity law indicates that this task must be critically important!

by Terrible Tadpole June 3, 2010