What's the last new word you learned?

[LaDaronne]

Mine is the rather pleasing flong, paper pulp used to make moulds in printing. What's yours?

Orthogonal. At right angles to, rather than diagonal.

I like that word very much. Thank you.

I’ve known it for ages but it’s still my favourite, so my submission is:

Defenestration. The act of throwing someone, or something, out of a window.

I like it so much that I regularly threaten my children with it when they’re being annoying.

Disclaimer - they know I’m joking.

Eisegesis - choosing to read confirmation of your own ideas from a text, so sort of the complement of exegesis. And generally a bad idea done in bad faith.

Petrichor- the smell of rain after a long period of dry weather

@marvellousnightforamooncup I didn't know what that meant - I should have taken heed at the thanks to mn rather than googling!(not for the first time have I googled a word I've seen on here and wished I hadn't! 😂)

Petrichor. The smell of rain when it has fallen in dry earth. (Absolutely love that smell!).

I had to confirm if specious meant what I thought it did so specious

Hypnagogic / hypnagogia - that state you're in just before you fall asleep but aren't really properly asleep.

I start "dreaming" before I'm properly asleep, so reading about this has been illuminating.

Limerence.

"The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one's feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship."

Someone used it in that insane thread where the woman was attracted to the 3/10 guy. 😂 Had to google as hadn't heard it before!

Tacchino- turkey in Italian.

Corvine = crow like

fissiparous = liable to break/ split,

(both in a Robert Harris book I'm reading)

Thaumaturgy

The working of wonders or miracles./ A magician’s capability to do this.

Read in a perfume blog.

Psychopomp.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp

Ovipositor
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovipositor

Rampensau.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rampensau

Fiché S - how France denotes someone who might be a security threat. Not a fun word, sorry!

Coddiwomple. An old English verb. To go in a determined way to a vague destination.

I saw it and the explanation on the back of a motorhome last week. Love it! 😁

@Paperdolly That's wonderful!!

Sorry nothing to add!

Love this thread

Here's another one: mydriasis, the dilation of the pupils not in reaction to light.