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Posted bypillbobagginsin/word_of_the_day-Jul 14, 2016 at 9:24 AMΔ

Top 10 Obsolete Words

Top 10 Obsolete Words

I read through hundreds of archaic/obsolete words and selected these ten gems. I think a few of them could work their way back. This page might take a bit of time to load because I got too fancy with the [...] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

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  • ZorkJul 14, 2016 at 9:50 AM

    anagapesis... loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved... such a clunky, clinical-sounding word for something sadly poetic...

    Although there are no actual accounts for the etymology of this word, it is assumed to originate from Greek. The privative prefix ‘an’ means ‘not’ or ‘without’; the Greek anape means love or brotherly love and ‘sis’ is the prefix representing a process.

    Rare are the things or people we will love forever. Life is a learning process, and by virtue of it- a falling in and out of love process. With each thing we learn we get a new opportunity for love. Everything that was learnt gives us the chance to prefer it over something we already know. Our lives are then anagapesis with each step we take, with every person we meet and with everything that we do.

    The funny thing is that the Greeks bothered enough for the falling out of love process to come up with a word for it; I would expect agapesis to exist as well- to represent the falling in love process, but it doesn’t. I wish it would have.

  • AppleOfDiscordJul 14, 2016 at 6:51 PM

    I love archaic words!

    'froward' - stubborn

  • EilisJul 14, 2016 at 9:37 AM

    Bawcock!

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