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Godsplaining

To attribute divine significance to something, usually in a forced manner
Random lady: These flowers start blooming during the Pentacostal period once a year. Before bloom, it looks like praying saints, after bloom it looks like a flying dove. How amazing is God's creation!

Friend: Are they godsplaining nature? The flowers bloom when the light, temperature, and climate conditions are right.
Godsplaining by Dorchid September 13, 2017
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Godsplaining

Definition #1: Verb: To dogmatically share your spiritual knowledge without asking for consent.

Definition #2: The spiritual equivalent of "Mansplaining" where the ‘splainer (man or woman) breaks down God and spirituality in a dogmatic fashion, without humility or curiosity.

Noun: Godsplainer
Ever since my sister subscribed to Deepak Chopra’s meditation app, she’s renamed herself Mango and has been Godsplaining like she was the Buddha. herself.
Godsplaining by EthanWolfLuna August 10, 2023

Godsplaining

The attempt to earn cultural capital or seduce by explaining spiritual concepts to people even though no one has asked for or needs an explanation.
Yeah, I overheard him Godsplaining to you last night at yoga. Ugh.
Godsplaining by shambhi December 13, 2015

Giosplaining 

When you explain a meme, thus removing any and all elements of humor from said joke
Ethan: I dont get why these moth memes are considered funny
Gio: You see, the moth memes are funny because the moth likes light. So, therefore, any allusions to a light source arouse the moths. XD
Ethan: Wow, now it's even less funny. Thanks for giosplaining it to me.
Giosplaining by BIG MAN MALOOF October 29, 2018

gunsplaining 

Correction of technical inaccuracies or clarification of conflated or incorrect terms related to firearms.
Clarifying the difference between semi-automatic and fully automatic is gunsplaining.

goysplaining 

When Gentiles lecture Jews about Jewish matters. Analogous to mansplaining.
"Actually, Arabs are Semites too..."
-"Cmon Fritz, stop the goysplaining already"."
goysplaining by Gēhā Pikāru April 21, 2017

Gaysplaining 

When one gay person begins to explain something pertaining to the gay community, via mansplaining method, and the recipient is well aware the topic they are trying to explain.
Scott and I were out the other night and met this guy at a bar who was gaysplaining to us about gender identity.