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Brantism 

To make up a definition or story when one doesn't know the real answer or truth. "To baffle with buloney".
Do you really know what you're talking about, or is that a Brantism?

Brantism by Beli September 18, 2008
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Brantism 

To make up a definition or story when one doesn't know the real answer or truth. "To baffle with baloney".

Do you really know what you're talking about, or is that a Brantism?

Brantism by Beli September 19, 2006

brainism 

when a thought comes
After sometime spent pondering, i finally had a brainism.
brainism by Fifi LaFluffles May 27, 2008

Brantism 

To make up a definition or story when one doesn't know the real answer or truth. "To baffle with baloney".
Do you really know what you're talking about, or is that a Brantism?
Brantism by Beli September 18, 2008

Braptism 

The process of being baptized but instead of water, they use human feces and farts.
John rapper: I be shitting on you like it’s a braptism!
Braptism by Weather_m1 January 13, 2021
A colloquial synonym for encephalocentrism or neurocentrism, often used pejoratively. Brainism treats the brain as the only relevant organ for understanding mind, reducing all mental phenomena to neural activity and dismissing psychological, social, or spiritual explanations as “folk.” It is common in pop‑neuroscience headlines (“This is your brain on politics”). Brainism ignores that brains develop in bodies, bodies in environments, and environments in cultures. It is a form of intellectual laziness that mistakes a necessary condition (you need a brain) for a sufficient explanation.
Brainism Example: “The brainist claimed that ‘poverty is a brain condition’ after reading one fMRI study. He ignored decades of economic and sociological research showing structural causes. Brainism as ideology.”