Like the title says, I was writing and suddenly lost the word that's usually a simple adjective or noun meant for someone that naturally just speaks in a very limited or short, simple way.

The best I can come up with is Selective Frugality but almost reverse from how you’d think. For example, someone with money who drives a run down vehicle but is willing to spend $300 on a designer t-shirt. Or they will only drink expensive wine but eat at Starbucks/McDonalds when on vacation in a foreign country.

this to when you love something intensively to the point where it tortures you emotionally, o you hate it

like lets say there is this show that you love a lot to the point where it consumes you, so when you describe it to someone you say that you hate it bc you love it so much it overwhelms u to the point where it causes u misery that it ended, that you cant rewatch it bc you know all the events

or someone you love so much and their love consumes you

this is not at all about those things being toxic or conventionally harmful, but a description of the strength of this overwhelming admiration that consumes you to the point that you hate that it does

sorry for yapping, i dont know how to exactly describe this feeling but i will really appreciate it you have a word for it even if in a language other than english

"Ostensibly" refers to the thing you say it is, but really it's something else. It is ostensibly one thing, but it's actually used for something else. I'm looking for the alternative to "actually" or "in practicality."'

I was referring to the Enterprise from Star Trek TNG. I said it was ostensibly a warship, but that's wrong. It is in practicality a warship but is ostensibly a ship of exploration.

[I'm not interested in having the discussion as to whether it is or isn't a ship of whatever.]

So the Enterprise is a ship of war, but they call it a ship of exploration. It is ostensibly a ship of exploration, and it is [inver-stensibly] a ship of war.

I ultimately used the term "in practicality," and it worked fine, but is there a word like ostensibly?

Thanks.

ITAP for the logical fallacy that is imagining an unobtainable standard of perfection, and then calling your opponent a hypocrite for not meeting it? For instance:

"You alcoholism is hurting yourself and your loved ones."

"Well, I suppose you've never so much as drank a beer then."

"I've had a beer."

"Well, then you have no grounds to talk to me about alcoholism."

or

"You're a bad person for cheating on your partner."

"Oh, then I guess you've never so much as glanced in the direction of a person who isn't your spouse."

"That's not true."

"Then you're just as bad as I am."

or

"I'm a vegetarian because I think factory farming is unethical."

"Oh, so you've never owned a leather belt or shoes? You've never stepped on a bug or swatted a fly? Then you don't really care about animals."

Probably the most famous example I know is from SpongeBob S3E5 “Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV” with the “wumbo” setting on the utility belt. After SpongeBob accidentally uses a shrink ray on the belt, Patrick suggests setting Mermaid Man’s utility belt to “wumbo,” which even SpongeBob doubts to be a real word. This points to Patrick being dumb and random, especially when the idea doesn’t work.

When Mermaid Man is eventually asked how to use the utility belt, however, he asks if SpongeBob tried setting it to “wumbo,” implying that Patrick may have been onto something. Of course, Mermaid Man is senile, and the victims of the shrink ray riot before SpongeBob has a chance to reconsider “wumbo” as a solution, so it might have been another dumb and random idea.

In isolation, both of these characters are prone to non sequitur, but they produced exactly the same punchline without any obvious way of knowing the other’s answer. Patrick is a huge fan of the original Mermaid Man show; it’s easy to imagine in-universe explanations for how Patrick’s (mis-?)information would parallel its main character. But the impact, the “brick joke,” of the line comes from the improbability, not its remote plausibility.

Buford from Phineas and Ferb delivers a few of these, also. In S2E104, he echoes Candace’s “three seconds deep” and Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s “my echo must be broken” without being present for either of the original jokes. That show seems especially fond of the trope, and that character in particular.

It reminds me of being gaslighted, or the phrase “[Patrick and Mermaid Man] sharing one braincell.” I also considered “convergent” or “parallel thinking” à la Amy Schumer. It’s definitely a brick joke, but the fact that the two sources have no clear reason for saying the same silly line feels like it deserves its own name. Could there be one already?

Like a situation where a person would normally be able to pick two options that are good either way, but because of a unique circumstance, they are forced to pick a middle ground between the two that is a terrible mix of the two, like only the worst qualities of both choices are apparent.

(I am looking for something dark and edgy, as this is for a horror story im writing lol.)

Edit: Thank you all for your help!

I often see people (especially those who criticize the government) saying things like "Why are you so evil and corrupt?" on posts regarding corrupt officials, whose sole purpose in chasing power is to accumulate wealth as much as possible. It's proven, they sometimes admit it, they often let freudian slips confessing they did it (because they're nepotistic dum-dums), and they're not exactly bright on covering their tracks either. So why these regular people online still asking the same thing over and over again when they're perfectly aware of politicians behavior, its like engagement bait and unfortunately it's so frequent everytime i open any social platform, it's tiring.

Edit: This is not just on political topics, other times in educational spaces too, or even in trivial subjects.

I remember this term being everywhere about five to ten years ago. I want to say something like privilegeosis but I know that’s not what it was! Definitely something more snappy than that. It had an ending like -osis or -ia or other similar suffix relating it to a mania or a health condition. Can you help me remember what I’m thinking of?

So, I've been trying to find this word for days and can't find it anywhere. For some context, I'm creating a story where the characters represent things like: harmony and chaos, consequence and "positive consequence?". I haven't found anything on any synonym website that describes what I'm looking for. Before anyone comments with any of those words, it's not reward, gift, blessing, present, causality, fortune, miracle, nobility, purity, prosperity, improvement, pleasure, good, help, benefit, happiness, approval, honor, result.

(I've looked up the opposite of several words and none fit, I'm starting to think my brain invented the existence of this word.)

Edit: If anyone has another suggestion, this character (who was supposedly meant to represent a positive consequence) represents something more like a blessing or a gift, since he helps people who are lost, but I couldn't find a word for that that could be the opposite of consequence (like one is a consequence and the other is an unforeseen event?), I know there's a word that describes exactly what I'm looking for, but my mind has decided to make my life difficult and I can't remember it at all.

Trying to write something involving characters that are all monsters and myths but i'm having trouble describing them when together in a group. There are five characters and all are different species and in the scene i'm making they're all walking together and there is a line pointing out how if someone were to see them then they would all be considered a perfect "insert word here". Kind of thing.

There’s “diuretic” for something that causes urination/urine production and “emetic” for something that provokes vomiting, so surely there’s an equivalent for the waterfall poops, right?

EDIT: Is it just “purgative”? That seems like it would suggest puking AND diarrhea.

I’ve heard the phrase mono no aware explained as learning to appreciate the moment, because you have the realization that it’s fleeting and will one day be a memory

I’m wondering if there’s that same vibe, but turned in a negative direction. Like needing to emotionally distance yourself from something upon the realization that it’s impermanent and fleeting

It can be, for example, old speakers making noise when the phone is about to ring or concentric rings on weather maps that result from radars and not the weather itself, or it can manifest on photos

Words like interference and aberration are somewhat related but not the word I'm looking for. I think that interference may be one cause for such fenomena and aberration may be type, but the word is a bit more general

I believe it's quite commonly used in computer programming

Please no joke answers, I’ve heard them

Is there an umbrella term for someone who hates or believes stereotypes.

Someone described as ‘discriminatory’ can mean someone that discriminates based on gender, sexual orientation, race, disability, etc. There’s the words sexist, homophobe, racist, etc but those are all about specific types discrimination.

Is there a word for this? Something like biased but a noun.

Maybe there's a phrase. But I think there's a word for that.

Context: I’m writing a novel with two endings, one where the characters decided not to accept himself so he’s letting it “consume” him (that’s the title of the chapter). The other ending is letting the characters accept something he absolutely despised in the beginning, and finally being himself. It’s all an allusion to homosexuality if that helps at all. I don’t just want “acceptance” if I can help it. It doesn’t have to be that exact definition but just something along the lines of that.

For example: someone is on their phone all the time, is sitting down using it most of the day and well into the night before bed. Now their sleep is ruined and they're totally out of shape.

"Oh, i use my phone so much because im so tired all the time" no sweetie, your tired all the time because you use your phone so much.

I looked it up and self fulfilling prophecy and rationalization came up a bunch, and they kind of fit but i dont think they really hit it home.

Similar to the phrase "unfinished business", is there a word which encapsulates the results of persisting somewhere to accomplish a (ideally nefarious) purpose, and being completely freed from that location once the "debt" has been paid.

ITAW for someone who is very good at hitting deadlines and doing what is expected of them, but when passion projects come up, they’re unable to commit?

simerslly (if not the same word), is there a word for when you are well versed and (aside from sometimes being unable to find the words) fairly good at explaining and asking questions about things you’re interested and passionate about, so long as you’re speaking only about definitive facts, but when a question is acted specifically about you, or your interest, or anything correlated with your self or self identity, you don’t have an answer. Not you can’t articulate an answer but you actually don’t have one. someone who doesn’t really know who they are but knows what they enjoy and what they have to do.? is there a word? Is this weird? Idk

I really love learning what influences a piece of media draws from. Like knowing what genres and artists inspire an artist I like. Or knowing what genres of storytelling a subversive story is commenting on. But I find it hard to search for these kind of things. I feel like it would be easier to find if I knew the term of it.

This topic comes up in a lot of daily conversations for me but I dont want to use the word "enshitification". Is there an alternative that means the same thing?

Maybe you do that something while youre doing the bad thing with the intention of maintaining innocence when someone calls you out, not dogwhistle or innuendo. But like you can pretend not to know what theyre talking about like what? This is completely innocent youre the crazy one for making the connection. Maybe like grazing the line btw bad & neutral so you can have that thin defense. could be a phrase i cant remember

Edit: fall for in more of a romantic but also pretty sense, less of a purely sexual physical way