wordodex

n. The part of the human brain responsible for storage and, more importantly, retrieval of the words learned over the course of a lifetime.

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Wordodex failures, in which the correct or perfect word (le mot juste ou parfait), which may have spent years collecting dust in the less-travelled areas of a surgeon's cerebral cortex, is badly routed and ends up dangling uselessly at the tip of his tongue, can be both annihilatory and devastative.

by gnostic3 November 23, 2022

Wordorexia

(noun)
1. An appetite for words

2. A strong desire to write.
(adjective) -wordorexic

"I have wordorexia right now."
"I have a wordorexic friend."

by Jake07 May 25, 2019

wordadex

n. Source of synonyms; a book, computer file, smartphone app or knowledgeable pleonastic person. Similar to a thesaurus or synofile.

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Can you think of another word for rhetorical?

I'm not a wordadex. Look in the thesaurus.

by gnostic1 September 21, 2011