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[kwbMitel]

My father in law is one of the most intelligent people I know. We often discuss unusual words what we've come across in our travels.

Osculate and pulchritudinous for example. Next time you see your better half say the following: - "I would like to osculate your pulchritudinous lips"

He has mentioned several times about a word that he once knew but can no longer remember. He can remember its meaning but not the word. Forgive me but I have to put it in my own words and the meaning might not be exact but hopefully close.

A word that describes other words whose definitions are more complicated than that which they intend to describe?

An attempt at an example (my attempt, and not necessarily a good one)

- Ineffable - A word used to describe something that is "incapable of being expressed in words"

The paradoxical nature of the definition of ineffable makes the definition more complicated than that which it intends to describe.

Does anyone know if there is a word to describe words such as these?

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[flyboytim]

I have a feeling that there are a few epeolatrists contributing here. A hint of logomania perhaps, or just logorrhea following an excess of verbivorousness?

If the concept of nymonymology (which could be considered a coneologism in this case. Is it a euonym?) interests you, a few more like the above, and much, much more, can be found here:

http://www.startwright.com/words1.htm

http://studymore.org.uk/glolan.htm

(replaces a bad link on the above page)

and also here:

http://rinkworks.com/words/linguistics.shtml

http://www.fxxxingcomputers.co.uk

 

[kwbMitel]

Flyboytim - I'll check those out, thanks.

BTW, I only knew the meaning of 1 of the special words in your last post. (Logorrhea) I hope that doesn't say too much about my interests.

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[RCorrigan]

Is that the same a g0n ........ no , never mind , erm I believe there is a taxi waiting with my name on it

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