Today I first heard the word/phrase.......

[Griffin NoName]

Obesogenic Society

[anthrobabe]

I see politically correct term for
lardass people

[Griffin NoName]

Pharmageddon

[goat starer]

neurocracy

[Griffin NoName]

nutraceutical

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

She Who Is Inevitable = Hillary Clinton
I much prefer She Who Must Not Be Named, myself, though.

[Darlica]

Trashophilia Cinematica
Thank you Swato!

[Griffin NoName]

Cliterary

[Griffin NoName]

velology

there's even a magazine- The Velologist

[Griffin NoName]

Read, rather than heard:

drapetomania

as in

Slaves who bolted were said to be suffering from the mental illness of 'drapetomania' or the irresistable urge to run away from plantations.  -p.223

Users and Abusers of Psychiatry, Lucy Johnstone, 2nd ed., 2000, Routledge

Central message of the book is Psychiatry is a system of social control in which psychiatric conditions are created/worsened by the system of treatment  ~ not well explained here by me: read the book!

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Does no one else increase their vocabulary around here? 

[Aggie]

Most of the new words I pick up are not for polite company...  like "shart".

I'll let you work that particular portmanteau out for yourself.

[Griffin NoName]

Earworm

A song or tune that is stuck in one's head, especially as unwanted or repetitive

I really like this word. Usually I don't like new words so I am happy. It only takes simple things to make me happy.

[Swatopluk]

I was looking up Tourette syndrome and found as one symptom Coprolalia. First the obvious interpretation seemed to be too absurd to be in a serious medical dictionary but it turned out, it isn't. This really means what it says: literally 'talking shit'  (i.e. using lots of fecal words and related).

[Earthling]

Fishlessness.

Actually, I discovered it yesterday, while reading through a permit application for reconstruction of a dam on a remote pond. Fishlessness is a characteristic evaluated by a wetlands delineator while certifying the status of an IUD* as Not a Vernal Pool, a Vernal Pool, or a Significant Vernal Pool. It's a checkoff box on the state's official field evaluation form, with a space for elaboration.


*That's Isolated Upland Depression, for any reprobates that might stumble on this thread.

[Griffin NoName]

scareware

""Scareware" merchants trick computer users into clicking on pop-up alerts that claim their device is "damaged and corrupted". They are then persuaded to buy software that corrects the non-existent issue by offering fake security fixes.

It's a least a year old but I only just came across it. The word that is, not the product which is ubiquitous.