Word of the Day – Cupidity

Cupidity

  • Noun: Cupidity
    1. inordinate desire for wealth : avarice, greed
    2. strong desire : lust
  • Synonyms:
    1. Greed
    2. Avarice
    3. Covetousness
    4. Rapacity
    5. Materialism
    6. Mammonism
    7. Money-grubbing
  • Usage:

“Nevertheless, knowing the weakness of her husband, and more particularly his cupidity, she did not despair of bringing him round to her purpose.”

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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Word of the Day – Loquacious

  •  Noun:  LoquaciousGarrulous
    1. full of excessive talk :  wordy
    2. :  given to fluent or excessive talk
  • Synonyms:
    1. Talkative
    2. Voluble
    3. Chatty
    4. Communicative
    5. Garrulous
  • Usage:

“Mr. Munck is a husky, loquacious man who lives about an hour south of Copenhagen.”

  • Encountered:

 While reading a New York Times editorial: Denmark’s Drug-Free Pigs

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Word of the Day – Mazophilia

breasts

  • Noun: Mazophilia
    1. A paraphilia, not formally recognised in the DSM-IV, in which sexuoeroticism hinges on the female partner’s/partners’ breasts to the virtual exclusion of other physical features.
  •  Synonyms:
    1. none found
  • Usage:

“Breast fetishism is clinically known as “mazophilia.” It falls under the DSM category of partialism, meaning an exclusive focus on one part of the body. Dr. Anil Aggrawal refers to breast partialists as those with, “an exclusive or almost exclusive reliance on breasts as a stimulus for sexual arousal.” There are a number of categories breast partialists can fall into. A simple Google search demonstrates just how wide the community spans. ”

  • Encountered:

Article on AlterNet.org : Adult Breast Feeding, Anyone? Inside the World of Breast Fetishism (Article no longer there)

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