This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
ergophobia
breviloquence
exeleutherostomize
corpocracy
obdormition


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Next week’s theme
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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ob-dor-MISH-uhn)

MEANING:

noun: Numbness in a limb, usually caused by pressure on a nerve. Also known as falling asleep.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin obdormire (to fall asleep), from dormire (to sleep). Earliest documented use: 1634.

NOTES:

There is a word even for what comes after obdormition: paresthesia. (also known as pins and needles).

USAGE:

“You end up driving with your foot on the floor beneath the clutch pedal, slowly losing the battle to obdormition.”
Ezra Dyer; A Priority of Cornering Over Horsepower; The New York Times; Aug 3, 2012.

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