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Phonaesthetics.

Let's all post our favorite words. Words that influence negativity, positivity, words that have power or just sound plain beautiful.
I think this has potential to be a great thread.

>> No.2943725

poopy

>> No.2943728

Fungus
Panties
Moist
Cringe

>> No.2943732

This is my first time being on /lit/, posting here or even lurking.
Might this be how all threads go here?..

>> No.2943735

Top three favorite words: avarice, harbinger, and phantasm.

Dactyls are kind of my shit, apparently.

>> No.2943738

anything beginning with Meta

>> No.2943739

phonaesthetics is a bag of warm shit

>> No.2943749

>>2943723

Damn, I thought I had invented the word "Phonoaesthetics".

>> No.2943757

Fetishism
Virginism
Analism
Fingerism
Depravism
Molestism
Erectism

>> No.2943762

>>2943739
hav 2 agree

it's like we're enlightenments taxonomists speculating on a person's character based on their skull size

>> No.2943765

Perhaps

>> No.2943769

tumescent

>> No.2943800

Tumultuous
Scourge
Myriad

>> No.2943818

Way.

>> No.2943835

pthisis

>> No.2943841

Raven, biblical.

>> No.2943843

Bacchanal
Omniscient
Ephemeral
Evanescent

>> No.2943864

Dortmund detected

>> No.2943865

Panacea

>> No.2943897

floozy

effluvium

susurrus

foofaraw

>> No.2943902

legacy
mystical
saga
esoteric

When I was a little kid, there were several words that I really liked because they just sent shivers up my spine. Sadly these two are the only ones I remember.

>> No.2943905

>>2943902
**four, sorry

>> No.2943911
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2943911

Phony
kills
Chrissake

>> No.2943937

frenulum
tenuous
glabrous
maybe

>> No.2943940

>>2943937
I also like saying echolalia to people I think won't know what it means so they repeat it after me.

>> No.2943942

Effigy

>> No.2943959

Uglily

Never has a word described itself so well.

>> No.2943968

macropterous
concomitant
lithe

>> No.2944038

cretaceous
tangible
forlorn

>> No.2944043

fear
alone
hate
pain
love

>> No.2944049

>>2943959

How about Cacophony?

>> No.2944074

Lots of Latinate words here. Doesn't anyone appreciate the simple beauty of Germanic words?

I've always liked 'anvil'.

>> No.2944231

diablerie
because I'm too pretentious for devilry

>> No.2944264

Pond. Just say it.

And arbitrary. Just arbitrarily. See what I did there?

>> No.2944265

I keep a list of words on my desktop:

Frenetic
Melancholy
Scurrilous
Depressed
Tentative
Infuse(d)
Lecherous
Amiable
Demeanour
Amourous
Inveterate
Selcouth
Ineluctable

>> No.2944289

>>2944074

People trying to sound smart.

>> No.2944305

I'd have to say:
Hatred
Victory
Thus
Mendicant
Apostate
Retribution
Reciprocity
Utter
Insignificance
Meandering
Cataphract
Resurrection
Argent
Sinuous

I also really like oddky metered phrases the best:

Strange-Penitent Egress
Vengeance downwards striking
Sin-Wage reckoning
Last Standing Monsterous Man
Unmetered measurement

>> No.2944639

>>2943940
I lol'd

>> No.2944654

Can anybody tell me where that statue on OP's pic comes from? I fucking love it.

>> No.2944676

Coincidence

Existentialism

>> No.2944729

rhizome
apparatus
assemblage
praxis
obfuscate
striated
heterotopia
abject
astral
ephemeral

>> No.2944752

ITT: people posting lists of words to appear fancy*

*my list(s) are horizontal

>> No.2944753

decrepit
invograted
cunt

>> No.2944757

>>2944752
ITT isn't a word

>> No.2944769

>>2944757
your mother

>> No.2944791

>>2944729
>ephemeral
I fucking hate that word so much. It makes me cringe and I don't know why.

>> No.2944793

Orifice
Penis
Idaho
Shit
Ass
Faggot
Anus
Gay

>> No.2944796
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2944796

wiseacre

>> No.2944798

>>2944793
I live in Idaho, and it fits perfectly into that list (semantically, that is).

>> No.2944810

ominous
croon
creak(the sound, not the water)
autumnal
latter
former
ambiguous
tangible
dissolve
floral
kafkaesque
swoon
moan
ring(the sound, not the jewelry)
chiaroscuro
sweeping
swooshing
swishing
swashbuckling
buckling


I have a lot of words I like.

oh, I almost forgot
>cellar door
:3

>> No.2944815

Quaint
Astute
Putrid
Bellwether

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2944828

peel

irradiate

cadenza

>> No.2945865

and, the, man, despair, fire, soul, death, hate, root, die, feed, sorrow, detested, fruit, apple, dead, sea, ashes, taste, count, year, threescore, three, green.

>> No.2945888

Lethologica

My favourite word.

>> No.2945913

corrupt

>> No.2945920

Pareidolia

Mmmmh imagined images and patterns.

Also, oriflamme.

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>>2944793

>> No.2946177

Mutilate
bronchial
penetration

>> No.2946205

tantamount to thunder

>> No.2946226

Swift.

Them sort of half onomatopoetic type things I like. Like trickle and mist and whisper.

>> No.2946228

>>2946226
I just learned that the term is ideophone.

Drowsy. Numb. Bleak. Giddy.

>> No.2946232

Short words are best words.