The Apocryphal Dictionary

What's in your lexicon? A hub for the display and proliferation of unusual, original, and bizarre words. Starred entries are neologisms.

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Nescient

adj.-ignorant or lacking knowledge

n.-an ignorant person, an unbeliever on spiritual matters

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Meating*

v.- Meeting in meatspace

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Aestheticism*

n.- (portmanteau, from "asceticism" and "aesthetic")

The act of withdrawing from typical cultural behavior in order to maintain hipster status

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Ambivocate*

v.- (portmanteau, from "ambivalent" and "equivocate")

To speak in a manner that is neither definite or committal. Ambivocation is usually employed to avoid answering uncomfortable questions, especially from parents.

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Defauxnition*

n.- The intentionally altered definition of a word designed to mislead one's audience

Alternate form:

v.- defauxne

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13 Wonderful Old English Words We Should Still Be Using Today

Taking a break from filling holes in dictionaries to bring to light a collection of things you didn't know we already had words for.

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Quinquagesample*

n.- The fiftieth post

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Webshite*

Portmanteau of "website" and the English slang for feces

n.- An internet domain that generates meaningless content that ends up consuming countless hours of a user's spare time; see BuzzFeed

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Dicosmophoria*

From Greek: di, "two", cosmos, "world", and phorous, "to bear"

n.- A feeling of experiencing or existing in two worlds at once

(In response to #4 on Hazlitt's "things we need words for" list)

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Snafeel*

From snafu, "error", and feel[ing], in reference to emotion

v.- To mistake one emotion for another, or to react emotionally in an inappropriate manner

(In response to #3 on Hazlitt's "things we need words for" list)

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Subdefine*

v.- (from sub-, meaning "under", and define, "state the meaning of")

To add meaning to a word or phrase via connotation or context in order to convey an idea not originally associated with the term; added meaning is assumed to be surrogate to original accepted meaning

Alternate form:

n.--subdefinition

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Linkquence*

n.- (from link, a pathway between webpages, and sequence, an order of objects)

A combination of hyperlinks one must click through in order to reach a particular webpage.  Most prevalent on wikis and academic websites.

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Entrophy*

n.- (from entropy, meaning "loss of energy", and trophy, a symbol of achievement)

the loss of value ascribed to awards due to their frequent endowment or misuse; largely associated with insecurities of the millennial generation

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Enthusigasm*

n.- (from Greek enthous meaning "possessed" or "inspired" and orgasmos meaning "to swell" or "to be excited")

To approach or revere a subject or act with near-sexual intensity; stereotypical fangirl behavior

Alternate forms:

adj.-- enthusigastic adv.--enthusigastically

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Schadenfreud*

n.- (from Schaden, meaning “harm,” and Freud, the father of psychoanalysis)

Pleasure derived from the misfortune of one’s parents.

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Homosectional*

n.- (from homo, meaning "same", and section, a group or cluster)

1)  In a musical group, a member who engages in sexual relations almost exclusively with others who play the same instrument    2) the tendency to engage in sexual relations with others who play the same instrument

adj.- 

Predisposed to engage in sexual relations with others who play the same instrument

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Dystem*

n.- (from Greek dys meaning "bad", and sustema, "set up")

a negative subset of the more universal 'system'; a procedural organization designed either to limit occurrence of a particular positive state, or with the intent of achieving a positive state but with greater negative repercussions