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fayte.m Knowflake Posts: 9809 From: Registered: Mar 2005
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posted December 22, 2007 09:11 PM
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Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted December 23, 2007 08:17 AM
My Fav? omphaloskepsis = navel-contemplation The highest I could get was 43. Great exercise as the words are not used in a sentence. P.s. when I did spell check on this post omphaloskepis was highlighted as 'not' in dictionary!
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fayte.m Knowflake Posts: 9809 From: Registered: Mar 2005
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posted December 23, 2007 10:00 AM
Here it is! In the Thesaurus! http://www.thefreedictionary.com/omphaloskepsis It is addicting is it not? I played too long! But I can see how it is a great stress or boredom reliever!
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Node Knowflake Posts: 1162 From: Crowded House Registered: Nov 2005
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posted December 23, 2007 10:12 AM
Yes, I googled it because I'm nerdy like that. This was from *World Wide Words*--OMPHALOSKEPSIS Contemplating one’s navel as an aid to meditation.This word seems to be relatively new, at least the Merriam-Webster “Word of the Day” column claims it to have been invented only in the 1920s. It turns up in only a few dictionaries and seems to be a word that survives more for the chance to show off one’s erudition than as a real aid to communication. If so, this article is a further perpetuation of its unreal status. It is formed from two Greek words, omphalos, “navel, boss, hub”, and skepsis, “the act of looking; enquiry”. The former turns up in words such as omphalotomy, “cutting of the umbilical cord”, in the related omphalopsychic for one of a group of mystics who practised gazing at the navel as a means of inducing hypnotic reverie, and omphalomancy, an ancient form of divination in which the number of children a woman would bear was determined from counting the knots in her umbilical cord at birth. I guessed the word right BTW..smilesIP: Logged |