Miséricorde, French for mercy. Most of the Romance languages have a similar word for the same thing.
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i had sex with my clone, call that a fucksimile
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also throwinf my penis into the hat:
the literal best word ever is Viscera
im a hobbyist horror writer and also hyenacore so i use the word what-would-be-far-too-much but it deserves it because it’s such a based and rad word. love viscera. 'ate pustule. simple as.
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pedipalp too!!!
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squishy :3
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YES sutch a good word for a cute little feeler
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Thanks for the great words all! This should help me get through my terrible writer’s paralysis, and let me finally put fingers to keyboard again!
Here’s some words of my own:
Abridged, regression, blue, ladybug
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Sorry, but that’s abridged too far.
{Pause for applause}
Thank you, you all are too much.
Anyway, I found more good words! Since last I spoke on this, I’ve gathered:
- Concatenate (it's useful becau
- Persnickety (isn't that the author of Unfortunate Event?)
- Duplicitous (my new favorite)
- Braggadocios (sounds like surfer slang, and it is)
- Stratagem (the word even looks pretty)
- Bathysphere (sounds fake)
- Gormless (what a goofy word)
- Micelle (makes me feel smart to say)
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bathypelagic
abyssopelagic
cetation
benthic
azerbaijan is a cool country name
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- skotopic / mesopic / photopic[1]
- callypigean / callipygous[2]
- refraction
- diffraction
- moonbow[3][4]
- moonglade[5][6]
some in portuguese:
vision under low-light, twilight, and well-lit conditions, respectively ↩︎
adjectives meaning “having a beautiful butt” ↩︎
like a rainbow, but from moonlight instead of sunlight ↩︎
moonbow collective is our system name! ↩︎
the reflection of the moon on a body of water ↩︎
(this is the name we’ve given to our recently built headspace!) ↩︎
bubble (the stress is on the first syllable) ↩︎
to make something disappear, or to do something that causes envy or jealousy in someone (the stress is on the last syllable) ↩︎
water lily, the word comes from the same root as nymph (the stress is on the accented syllable) ↩︎
the feeling or result of having a positive and intense out-of-this-world experience, a pleasant type of literal awe (the stress is on the second-to-last syllable) ↩︎
spicy
(the stress is on the second syllable) ↩︎
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defenestration is an amazing word
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psychopomp is such a great and weird word
the fact it starts with psych but has nothing to do with the mind is just befuddling in the best possible way
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I think the word mellifluous sounds good.
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I generally like words, but here are many words I really like off the top of my head (some more obscure or extraordinary than others, and in no particular order):
- Crescent
- Supercalafragilisticespialidocious
- Onomatopoeia
- Abomination
- Vanity
- Amalgamation
- Blossom
- Venison
- Hutch
- Stroop-wafel
- Papyrus
- Livid
- Euphoria
- Anemoia
- Cavern
- Neutral
- Ambivalent
- Melancholy
- Respite
- Oxymoron
- Paradox
- Dichotomy
- Discord
- Cyclical
- Eclipse
- Blinding
- Consume
- Sum
- Whole
- Gist
- Crux
- Vindictive
- Dignity
- Vibrant
- Lantern
- Pod
- Munchies
- Vertebrae
- Neurotic
- Convergent
- Divergent
- Ecstasy
- Heavenly
- Delicious
- Colossal
- Massive
- Microscopic
- Cellular
- Infinity
- Fluffy
- Adorable
- Reflection
- Platinum
- Titanium
- Triumphant
- Victory
- Collective
- Ergonomic
- Optimize
- Flattered
- Impressed
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but I hope you enjoyed reading (and maybe getting inspiration from) it! ^-^
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Some words that I like
In french :
- chirurgical
- anticonstitutionnellement (initially knew it as the longest french word)
- ouaip
In english :
- momentum
- smoothly
- overpowered
- outlaw
- cannon
- ballistic
- wrath
- revenge
- unparalleled
- nicely
- grip
- downforce
- aero(dynamics)
- turbo
- yep
- scenery
- picturesque
- miscellanous
- fancy
- dearly
- nimble
- resilient
- apocaliptic
- disruption
- disruptive
- excessive
- extraordinary
- wise
- atomic
(I’ll stop here before I end up with a list of over 9,000 words)
In japanese :
- kaioken
- genkidama
- masenko
- makankōsappō
- hakai
- kamehameha
(yes I like DBZ a lot)
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- preternatural
- iridescent
- fungible
- eclectic
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Get quoted!
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I’ve quite enjoyed a lot of the words posted so far. It has engendered a feeling of “yes, these feel like my people!”
(Ooh, engendered.)
Big ups to attenuate, ephemeral, perambulate, superfluous, juxtaposition, concatenation, accoutrements, obfuscate, defenestrate, evocative, prerogative, psychopomp, ambivalent, dichotomy, and to all four in @zqlk’s recent post:
Some just chef’s kiss superb offerings in this thread. (sidenote: The ones I highlighted happen to be ones that I would use and that sound nice / feel nice to say. I wonder if there are any further commonalities. Potentially some aspect of the length and consonant sounds? That part of me likes how they make me feel smart? (or “…how they bolster my ego via sesquipedalian verbosity?”))
Also, shout-outs to the unexpected biochemical guest-stars! Proteins, biomacromolecules, and organelles comin’ out left and right! Love to see it.
I have a few words of my own to contribute (gathered from the top of my dome plus a skim through some writing from earlier this year) 
- engendered (as above)
- loiter
- archipelago
- archaeon
- superfluous (how couldn’t I?)
- preposterous
- purportedly + ostensibly
- glaze
- perfidious
- zealous
- liberatory
- inconceivable
- affect + effect
- entanglement
- inherent
- envisioning
- lens
- sclera
- monolithic
- potentialities
- inculcation
- preclude
- irksome
- recursive
- litigating
- visceral
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I shared some of the good words with my mother and she asked whether names were included; she loves saying the name of this 80’s tennis player:
Slobodan Živojinović
(“zhee-voh-YEE-noh-veech”)
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