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Textilism 

“Textilism” is a term meant to replace and improve upon the short comings of the term “non-nudism”

1.
Noun:
The sexually motivated belief that people should wear clothes for the purpose of concealing their bodies, especially the genitals, buttocks, and female breasts.

2.
Noun:
A culturally and/or religiously ingrained fixation on oversexualizing and concealing the human body, emphasizing the concealment of the genitals, buttocks, and female breasts.

3.
Noun:
The pseudopathological fixation on the concealment of the human body which is itself a concealed obsession with sexualizing people, and then trying to avoid all thoughts and feelings about sex, to the extent of structuring society around coercing everyone into living their lives as slaves to society's sexual objectification of them.

Textilist concealment is most often achieved through the use of textiles (clothing). Textilism is most often practiced to the extent of using government-sanction coercion to force all people to conceal themselves.
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Noun:
Textilism enjoys a long history of privileged status as it has been widely accepted as normal, is rarely questioned, has faced minimal opposition, and is widely forced on people by the threat of government violence.

2.
Noun:
The fight for the rights of breastfeeding mothers and the rights of bare-chested women are two highly publicized examples of challenges that textilism has faced.

3.
Noun:
Textilism encourages people to oversexualize the human body, and to project those beliefs and feelings onto non-textilists.
Textilism by Forever Artist April 27, 2025
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Non-textilism 

“Non-textilism” is a term meant to replace and improve upon the short comings of the term “nudism.”

1.

Noun:
Rejection of or absence of textilism.
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Noun:
The freedom to practice non-textilism has saved more time, money, and energy than I ever imagined possible.

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Noun:
Non-textilism is a human right that had to be given a name because that right was taken away through textilism.
Non-textilism by Forever Artist April 27, 2025

textitis 

The thumb/wrist pain that results from excessive texting.
My wrist hurts SO bad. Must be from the 900 text messages sent this month. I think it's textitis .
textitis by CrazyMN May 30, 2008
The idea that only black women with hair that is loose or has well-defined curls (3A, 3B, and 3C hair) are beautiful.
“Because of texturism in the media, it’s rare to see women with coily hair presented as beautiful to the public.”
Texturism by •Miya_is_the_name• September 6, 2021

textlish 

Language/spelling used when texting, typing or writing.
lets eet. FrIdAh!!! thats how u spell it xD he told meh it durin art and alex still duznt enderstand that he duznt, ima lernin, frend, bein, i dont no, sumting, theers, textlish mks no sns
textlish by Pink Pirate September 12, 2009

Textitis 

1) Overly excessive texting disease.

origin: Caused dominantly by the new wave of technology, innovation and collaboration of Instant Messaging programs with Handheld Phone Devices. Popular reference: Sidekick. cell phones with keyboard pad available.


texting is of course available to regular standard cell phones without keyboards.

Most commonly used by Young Adults.
You have textitis.


You know who put the definition of textitis.

=]
Textitis by mmikey December 9, 2008
Pneumonic devices or shortening of words into text form such as LOL, OMG, TTYL, L8R, H8, luv, ect.
I hate the textism LOL people use it to much, whatever happened to LMAO or ROFL
Textism by allicov August 3, 2010
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Oblication 

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So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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