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俚语 thesauritis
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Thesauritis

When a person decides to improve his/her writing (essays, poetry, etc.) by looking up synonyms in a thesaurus and utilizing words that they think sound nice. In most cases, a person diagnosed with Thesauritis will use the words s/he found incorrectly - therefore making him/her look stupid in front of people with bigger vocabularies.
Thesauritis patient: "I besot you so profusely; all through the ignominious opprobrium and misconstrued paroxysms... my ventricles throb with plasma for you."

You: If you knew what those words meant, you wouldn't have said that.

thesaurize

To attempt to make your writing more formal and impressive by replacing simpler words with longer synonyms from a thesaurus
James thesaurized his résumé in hopes of landing a job with a higher salary

Thesaurize

to find the synonym of a word in a Thesaurus. see also Dictionize
brohan i forgot what word means to attack for my essay, i wanna sound smart! oh shit man go Thesaurize it

thesauric collision

N. Describes the fairly common occurrence amongst literate types, in which two synonymous or near-synonymous words are spoken somewhat atop each other, resulting in the creation of such phrases as "dramastic", "grood," and "for suretain." While these phrases have been used intentionally, true thesauric collisions only result from accidental construction of such phrases.
While Leeroy was at the cocktail party, he accidentally subjected the words "sweet" and "nice" to a thesauric collision, and thus told the Swedish ambassador to the UN that his expensive new martini glass was "swice."

Opportunely thesauric

When someone uses uncommon synonyms from a thesaurus at an opportune time either for strong comedic effect, to dramatically emphasize a point, or both.
Used in a Sentence:
"When did you learn all of those fancy words? You've been so opportunely thesauric lately."

-Example in Context-
Person 1: "How's your burger?"
Person 2: "It is simply divine."
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