#autological

[spankerella]

@ MerriamWebster

[gailcarriger]

phobias that are autological words

aibohphobia - fear of palindromes

dodecaphobia - fear of the number 12

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - fear of long words 

[dothob]

self-descriptive

berlin, prenzlauer berg, 2020

[simple-symphonia]

Imagine oikawa, kuroo, daichi and terushima singing, "We are number one" from lazy town with kuroo/oikawa as rotten robbie

but every time they say "we are number one” it gets faster

[dkl9]

"concept handle" is a concept handle

(from AN #739)

[anameandaplace]

seasons demonstrate their nature / an example haiku does the same

[mattseeleypoetry]

Autonyms

How aptly archaic

Is the word ‘archaic’

To mean antiquated

While itself outdated

Much like the word ‘erudite‘

Which means educated

And is only ever spoken

By the highly literate

  Or by those considered ‘magniloquent‘

Now there’s a fancy word!

  Which, of course, means pompous

(And it’s probably the most pompous word

That I have ever heard!)

  Now, I do hope this poem

Hasn’t been too ‘obfuscatory‘

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[noegrets]

Is there a word for the type of word that is... well... when you wonder if there is a more specific word that more correctly captures what you are trying to convey, and you look it up and you find that, yes, there is indeed this more perfect word, but it is too technical, too archaic, too much like a more common word with the opposite meaning that you fear it might cause confusion, or is otherwise too non-understandable for you to actually use, so you find yourself stuck using the earlier, less perfect word for the sake of your reader not accidentally misunderstanding or not needing to pull out a dictionary?  A word that is not dead yet, but pretty much functionally extinct?  And you are left wishing that this word was a more realistic option, and wondering if maybe you should have used it anyway, perhaps in some vain attempt to resuscitate this dying word, or to, in some small way, increase public awareness of cartography jargon?