Noeclexia.

[elfs]

A few people have listed down "sapiosexual" as a sexual preference, indicating an attraction to individuals based on their intelligence rather than any physical characteristics.

Well, sad to say, there's already a word for that.

Noeclexia: the practice of selecting a sexual partner based on intelligence and character without regard to physical appearance.

Thank you, Oxford. Oh, baby, verb me with that adverbial adjective noun! Adverb! Adverb! Exclamation!

Comments

[wendor.livejournal.com]

While it surprises me that there was already a word for it, it comes as no surprise to me at all that YOU would be the one to find it.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*pained look* well, yes, but....

If you say "Noeclexia" to someone, even perhaps to Torin (who's a former Mensa-ite, for pity's sake), they're liable to go "huh?" If you say "sapiosexual" to anyone who's about half smart, they'll have a dim memory of what Homo sapiens means from high school, and the light bulb will go on....

I can say "necroequine flagellation", too, and that's liable to get me blank stares from a number of people (although not as many)... and while there are times when using a "correct" fifty-dollar word is useful (for, say, getting past the censors, e.g. Norm Schwartzkopf's "bovine scatology" in Gulf War Part One), when the idea is not to go over folks' heads, even if it's sometimes a misnomer (like "breaking Godwin's law"). This isn't, it's just new.

In two words, eschew obfuscation. :)

(of course, if what I'm commenting on is quasi-tongue-in-cheek, then so is this :)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Hey! I like obfuscation.

I'm wondering if Amazon will reprint my review of Appleseed. In trying to clute Clute, I managed to describe the end of the book as "anlalochezic" (lots of profanity that is not as satisfying as intended), the plot as "a salmagundi of quotidian modern themes," (a confused mixture of mundane modern themes), and his vocabulary as "clinquant" (glittering and rich).

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Whatever floats your boat, man *chuckle*

Kinda reminds me of Keith Kalland, late reporter of traffic for an Atlanta radio station, who was always using big words and colorful metaphor to describe the abomination that is Atlanta traffic.. I think that's why WGST got the ratings they did, folks were always listening to see what he'd come up with next... things like the "ubiquitous ladder in the roadway" and "stick a fork in it, it's done" and "a plethora of accidents"....

Too bad he's gone. You would've enjoyed him.

[mr-maigo.livejournal.com]

i was told "noeclexia" was part of the mensa charter.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

o..........k... :)

Re:

[mr-maigo.livejournal.com]

guess we dont know the same mensa people

[kenshardik]

Non-continuous verb adjective, proper noun?

[ssatva.livejournal.com]

Noeclexia: They have a pill for that now, don't they?

"Hello, new person--I have what sounds like a debilitating disease or distressing neurological condition; wanna fuck?"

[mr-maigo.livejournal.com]

a pill you say? so i can put away my "sheet-with-a-hole"?

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Chambers doesn't have it.

I listed "pulchriheterosexuality" as an LJ interest (uniquely). Is there already a word for that?

[patcat.livejournal.com]

`They were featureless and telic, like lambent gangrene. They looked horribly like children.'
(Bonus points if you recognize that quote without googling for it.)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Gaah. I actually do remember that, but not because I remember reading it. I did read them, but it was David Langford who reminded me of that quote during a recent conversation we had about John Clute's last book, Appleseed. What I don't understand is why Langford loves Clute but loathes Donaldson, describing his books as, and I quote, "so flatulent one must be careful not to squeeze them in public."

[funos.livejournal.com]

hmm...while I like the term, I've had several friends look it up in their OEDs and found nothing.
(that I have more than 2 friends with an OED of some form is a bit bizzare....)

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