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lettery

A word that has more letters than a different word that means the same thing, but has more letters
The word CONTINUE is more "lettery", because the word KEEP means CONTINUE, but has only four letters; CONTINUE has three syllables; KEEP has one.
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self-media

Media individuals create for their own viewing or listening pleasure.
Audio-journaling is one type of self-media.
by but for November 28, 2017
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Lifestyle Acuity

The degree to which individuals are able to live their life the way they choose to. To work at what they love to do, to be in a relationship with or married to the man or woman they want to be married to, to live where and how they want to live, etc.
After relocating to another state in the nation, working hard to achieve a higher mental and physical state and doing so, Charlie has been able to raise his Lifestyle Acuity far more and faster than he imagined. The only thing he has not found is an acceptable female companion, but he is optimistic and patient.
by but for October 18, 2017
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self-brainwashing

Extricating certain words, thoughts, beliefs, and expectations from one's brain and replacing them with other words, thoughts, beliefs, and/or expectations by writing them, reading them, recording them, playing them back, thinking about them and practicing them.
Reading numerous self-help books I realized that my beliefs and expectations were injected into me in various ways by different people since I was a child. Gradually, I realized that I could replace the negative words, thoughts, beliefs, and expectations with correct and better ones. I call that process self-brainwashing.
by but for May 7, 2018
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parasitical attraction

The phrase which expresses the fact most individuals feel attracted to someone they believe can somehow give them or help them win some benefit from them, and the automatic and often uncontrollable desire to connect with those individuals or anyone who possesses something or one does not have and may be willing to share some of the things he has.
Tommy's whiter skin, coupled with her overwhelming desire to have her child's skin be lighter than hers, the young girl felt a parasitical attraction (or parasitically attracted) to him.

Individual often start acting funny when they feel attracted to someone. Women may blush and flirt, men smile. Both genders may also express body language that reveals—in usually unmistakeable and often unforgettable ways—that they feel attracted to a person.
by but for September 20, 2018
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impossibilitate

To make an action or thing impossible.
Usernames, passwords, and personal identification numbers (PIN) impossibilitate anyone who does not know them from entering a website or completing a financial transaction at an automatic teller machint (ATM).
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at the New Year's Celebration held each year in Times Square, being surrounded by massive numbers of people made it one-hundred percent impossible for anyone from advancing.
The addictive chemicals in cigarettes make it close to impossible for smokers to stop smoking.
Drivers Licenses make it almost impossible for someone to drive without having obtained a driver's license.
Locks make it mostly impossible for anyone to enter without opening the lock with its key.
Male as well as female condoms make it as impossible as possible for a sperm to not enter the vagina.
Prisons make it close to impossible for any prisoner to escape.
Reserve parachutes make it virtually impossible for someone to continue free falling and die on impact because their main parachute did not open and they did not have a reserve parachute, or as unlikely as it seems to be, if the reserve parachute also failed to open. But there is usually no way to prevent unexpected things from happening.
The sex drive is so powerful, it impossibilitates a species' self-extinction.
Structural or electronic blocks impossibilitate certain things from taking place. But some of those what could be called—structural or electronic impossibilitators" do not always succeed.
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sex war

The nonviolent, respectful, tolerant different opinions about the various different sexual preferences,
The sex war is the nonviolent and covert war between individuals who have different sexual preferences, and it is slowly intensifying.
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