Definition and Examples of Word Aversion (or Logomisia)

Definition and Examples of Word Aversion (or Logomisia) In language contemplates, logomisia is a casual term for a solid abhorrence for a specific word (or sort of word) in view of its sound, which means, utilization, or affiliations. Otherwise called word abhorrence orâ verbal infection. In a post on Language Log, etymology teacher Mark Liberman characterizes the idea of word repugnance as a sentiment of serious, nonsensical abhorrence for the sound or sight of a specific word or expression, not on the grounds that its utilization is viewed as etymologically or consistently or syntactically off-base, nor on the grounds that it’s felt to be over-utilized or repetitive or in vogue or non-standard, yet basically in light of the fact that the word itself by one way or another feels undesirable or even disgusting.â Moistâ A Web website called Visual Thesaurus requested that its perusers rate the amount they like or abhorrence certain words. Furthermore, the second-most-loathed word was damp. (A companion once said that she despises cake blends that are promoted as being extra-clammy in light of the fact that that essentially implies super-wet.) Oh, and the most-loathed expression of everything was abhor. So many individuals despise hate.(Bart King, The Big Book of Gross Stuff. Gibbs Smith, 2010) My mom. She detests inflatables and the word sodden. She considers it pornographic.(Ellen Muth as George Lass in Dead Like Me, 2002) Slobber My own assertion revultion is longstanding, and quite a few years from the first occasion when I heard it I despite everything pull back, similar to the spines of a newly opened shellfish. It is the action word to slobber, when applied to composed exposition, and particularly to anything I myself have composed. Extremely pleasant individuals have let me know, for quite a while now, that a few things they have perused of mine, in books or magazines, have made them slobber. . . .I . . . ought to be appreciative, and even unassuming, that I have helped individuals to remember what fun it is, vicariously or not, to eat/live. Rather I am revolted. I see a slavering drooling throat. It spills vulnerably, in a Pavlovian reaction. It drools.(M.F.K. Fisher, As the Lingo Languishes. The State of the Language, ed. by Leonard Michaels and Christopher B. Ricks. College of California Press, 1979) Underwear Adriana recuperated first. Undies is a contemptible word, she said. She grimaced and exhausted the caipirinha pitcher into her glass. . . .Im simply calling attention to its relative grossness. All ladies detest the word. Underwear. Simply state it-underwear. It makes my skin crawl.(Lauren Weisberger, Chasing Harry Winston. Downtown Press, 2008)He utilized the eraser end of a pencil to get a couple of womens clothing (actually, they were underwear wiry, frilly, red-however I realize ladies get creeped out by that word-simply Google abhor the word panties).(Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl. Crown, 2012) Cheddar There are individuals who disdain the sound of specific words-they would appreciate eating cheddar on the off chance that it had an alternate name, however inasmuch as it is called cheddar, they will have none of it.(Samuel Engle Burr, An Introduction to College. Burgess, 1949) Suck Suck was an eccentric word. The individual called Simon Moonan that name since Simon Moonan used to tie the administrators bogus sleeves despite his good faith and the consul used to let on to be furious. However, the sound was monstrous. When he had washed his hands in the toilet of the Wicklow Hotel and his dad pulled the plug up by the chain after and the messy water went down through the opening in the bowl. What's more, when it had all gone down gradually the gap in the bowl had made a sound that way: suck. Just louder.(James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916) The Disgust Response Jason Riggle, a teacher in the branch of semantics at the University of Chicago, says word revultions are like fears. In the event that there is a solitary focal trademark to this, it’s most likely that it’s a progressively instinctive reaction, he says. The [words] bring out sickness and nauseate instead of, state, inconvenience or good shock. What's more, the nauseate reaction is activated on the grounds that the word brings out a profoundly explicit and to some degree abnormal relationship with symbolism or a situation that individuals would commonly discover appalling however don’t ordinarily partner with the word. These repugnances, Riggle includes, don’t appear to be inspired exclusively by explicit letter mixes or word qualities. In the event that we gathered enough of [these words], the reality of the situation might prove that the words that fall in this class share a few properties for all intents and purpose, he says. In any case, it’s no t the case that words with those properties in like manner consistently fall in the category.(Matthew J.X. Illness, Why Do We Hate Certain Words? Record, April 1, 2013) The Lighter Side of Logomisia Our subject this time was an Ugliest Word Contest: everybody needed to give up with an indication around their neck on which would be composed the ugliest word they could consider. All the etymologists present would later pass judgment on the best passage. . . .On the couch were PUS and EXPECTORATE. On the floor, sitting leg over leg in a half hover before the stone chimney, and all adjusting paper plates piled high with nachos, hummous, and guacamole, I spotted RECTUM, PALPITATE, and PLACENTA (as one of the language specialists, I realized that placenta would be dispensed with rapidly from the running: while it inferred a revolting picture, its phonetic acknowledgment was quite dazzling). In a phenomenal happenstance, SMEGMA . . . was nestling up to SCROTUM against the storeroom entryways in the kitchen. . . .As I strolled around, I understood that a ton of these words would make incredible band names: e.g., FECAL MATTER (express: exclude), LIPOSUCTION, EXOSKELETON.(Jala Pfaff, Sedu cing the Rabbi. Blue Flax Press, 2006) Elocution: low-go-ME-zha