Difficult Words

[vaxjedi]

I have been browsing the Dictionary of Difficult Words - There are some really cool words there.

allotheism n. worship of strange gods.
pansexualism n. obsession with sex in all activities; belief that sexual instinct is basis of all activity. (note the difference between pansexual often used as an orientation)
theophagy n. eating of god, or of thing symbolising god, as a sacrament.
eonism n. adoption of opposite sex's manners, clothes and mentality, especially by a man. eonist, n. transvestite.
misotheism n. hatred of gods or God.
lares n.pl. pl. local or tutelary gods. lares and penates, household gods.
theomastix n. punishment, or punisher, of mortals sent by God.
theomachy n. battle between or against gods.
physitheism n. nature worship; ascription to God of physical shape.
Momus n. god of ridicule; carping critic; satirist
glossoid, a. tongue-like.
xiphoid a. sword-like
bilbo n. sword
tribade n. homosexual woman
tripara n. woman who has had three childbirths
callipygian, callipygous a. having well-shaped buttocks
chrysopoetics n. manufacture of, or transmutation into, gold
theotechny n. supernatural beings involved in the action of a poem, play, etc.; introduction of such beings.
Anacreontic a. (of verse) in the style of Anacreon, praising love and wine. n. such a poem.
thooid a. like a wolf

Comments

[ororo.livejournal.com]

callipygian, callipygous

That goes very well with the word "spathic."

Wow very interesting!

[ex-sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

I think a tribade is traditionally a woman who rubs her cunt against another woman's, a specific lesbian activity. It's Latin anyway.

Re: Wow very interesting!

[vaxjedi]

makes sense. :)