Wear Your Dictionary's Facebook Posts as of June 2022
Channel: Social Media [Moribund Institute]
Date: 2022-06-10

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Cui Bono - The principle that the ultimate initiator of an action is likely the person who stands to gain from the action.

Heckler's Veto - Limiting an individual's free expression by heckle. 

Liberaltarianism - A variety of libertarianism that prioritises emancipation over maximal property rights & rejects minarchy. 

Ex-ante - predicted; forecast 

Plain Jane - A young woman or girl of average or unremarkable appearance.

Cadge - To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.

Consumerism - A materialistic attachment to possessions.

Platonist  - A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism. 

Soda Jerk - A person who works at a soda fountain. 

Self-cultivation - The practice of effecting gradual yet substantial improvements of oneself, especially though education.

Overdetermined - Determined by multiple causes in such a way that any of the causes on its own would be sufficient to account for the effect.

McGurk effect - A perceptual phenomenon where, when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, a third & different sound is perceived.

Spillover Effect - The phenomenon in which an economic event in one context occurs because of something else in a seemingly unrelated context.

Bidenism - A quip, phrase or aphorism commonly said by Joe Biden.

Trotskyism - The left-wing political philosophy named after & based on the ideas of Leon Trotsky that is characterized by international socialism, opposition to Stalinism, the theory of permanent revolution and the theory of the vanguard party.

Faustian - Of or pertaining to Faust, especially in the sense of being willing to abandon one's principles or values in order to pursue knowledge, wealth or other benefits.

Pinochetism - the conservative ideology associated with the Pinochet administration, 1973-1990

Cartelize - To have an industry become controlled by a cartel. 

Logotherapy - A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.

The term Rogernomics is a portmanteau of "Roger" & "economics", was coined by journalists at the New Zealand Listener by analogy with Reaganomics to describe the neoliberal economic policies followed by Roger Douglas. 

Leveler - A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves & the have nots.

Cell Membrane - The semipermeable membrane that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell.

Counterfactual - Of or in comparison to a hypothetical state of the world. 

Saccharine - Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

Savantism - The condition of being a savant. 

Human Capital - The stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social & personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value. 

Mengerian - Of or relating to Carl Menger (1840–1921), founder of the Austrian School of economics

Friedmanian - Of or relating to Milton Friedman (1912–2006), American economist, statistician, & writer, known for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history & theory, & the complexity of stabilization policy.

Psychache - psychological pain 

Periclitate - To endanger. 

Breatharianism - The belief in, or practice of, living without food, subsisting instead on prana or sunlight

Bioinformatics - A field of science in which biology, computer science, & information technology merge into a single discipline to analyse biological information using computers & statistical techniques.

Oneironautics - lucid dreaming, the ability to explore dreams. 

Noctivagant - Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering. 

Lychnobite - A person who works or labors at night & sleeps during the day.

Pluralism - The acknowledgement of a diversity of political systems. 

Misesian - Of or relating to the economic analyses of Ludwig von Mises.

Monomachia - A duel; single combat. 

Endmost - last in a series, furthest away

Pharmaceutical - Of, or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

Polygenesis - The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; as opposed to monogenesis. 

Topology - A branch of mathematics studying those properties of a geometric figure or solid that are not changed by stretching, bending & similar homeomorphisms. 

Dialectology - The study of dialects.

Theodicy - A justification of a deity or of particular attributes of a deity; specifically, a justification of the existence of evil & suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God

Catechism - A book, in question & answer form, summarizing the basic principles of Christianity.

Apanthropy [アパンスロッピー] - An aversion to human company; love of solitude.