Making up your own words and also big good words thread Anonymous 2025/08/26 (Tue) 09:53
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A new word came to me in a dream: Mabeunt.
It means something sinister or evil pervading the atmosphere of something. I think its my brain's way of combining 'malice' and 'ambient'.
You could use it in a similar way to 'cursed', except without the magical implication. For example:
"In his rush to get sat down, he hadn't really taken in his surroundings; but as he sat and waited in the empty, high ceilinged lobby, the grandiose décor seemed to loom over him. The amplified echo of every single one of his movements pervading the silence of that room made him feel like he was breaking some greater being's concentration and wearing on its patience, or that perhaps his ruckus was making himself known to some mabeunt beast."
Anyway, this is a good word thread, for words you think are very good. Hell, make up your own words! Shakespeare did that, and hes a good writer, so making up your own words must make you a good writer!
Anonymous 2025/08/26 (Tue) 12:19
No. 26123
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Looks like a very anglosaxon cultural thing
Anonymous 2025/08/26 (Tue) 14:33
No. 26125
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>>26122
>It means something sinister or evil pervading the atmosphere of something.
Interesting. I think the closest pre-existing word in meaning might be "insidious".
Anonymous 2025/08/26 (Tue) 15:21
No. 26126
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>>26123
The Japanese do it too! check out the 新語・流行語大賞 , or the 'New Words and Buzzwords Awards'!
I think so long as an original word is supported well by the surrounding text and context, reader comprehension won't suffer. Its much the same as the process of including an uncommon or archaic word in your writing!
>>26124
Wordn't? Whyn't!
>>26125
Sinister, ominous and menacing are also similar to what I'm trying to get across. This is going to sound stupid, but in the dream I had, the example I came up with to show off the word was two images - one had kids playing in a sandbox, completely normal. In the second image it was kids playing in a sandbox again, but the sandbox was floating or rather superimposed on a grayscale city skyline. I think its closest to ominous in meaning, but with more evil involved.
Anonymous 2025/08/27 (Wed) 16:02
No. 26128
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Wonderwhere, fancy way of saying fancy place.
"Woah, this is a wonderwhere!" Something like that... idk
