Phenomicia

"phenomic /fen.'om.ik/ adj. (Of a word) the quality of being pleasant to say, or of being memorable in some way; especially a word which has been invented for this purpose."—Phenomic Defined.

The word's meaning is, however, being eroded towards "an invented word".

This is a list of words which I've either invented outright, or used and then found that there are a handful of other uses. @@ Reference the hacker's guide on making words, and Quinion on words' acceptances into a language.

These words are from the period around 2005-01, and were googlecounted on 2005-04-19. No words that scored over 500 have been included.

• backymology (4) - A false etymology that is imposed on a word by hack etymologists.
• bazzilioid (0) - Much more than a billion, a trillion, or even a zillion.
• bemuddlefraught (3) - That which is afflicted with mess; hence fraught with muddle.
• compoundative (3) - Agglutinative structures, subject to accretion.
• dipthongated (0) - The process of mutating a vowel to be two adjacent vowel sounds.
• envyless (46) - Possessing no envy; being happy of others' favour.
• googledotted (46) - To take down a site by traffic from Google. Akin to "slashdotted".
• grotesquenesses (278) - A plurality of things which are terrid (terrible/horrid).
• horkily (0) - In the manner of that which sucks, i.e. horks.
• horticulturality (0) - The nominalised version of a pertaining to cultivation or gardening.
• hypobolic (230) - Being understated; the antonym of hyperbolic.
• julioglish (0) - The form of English espoused by Julio, a well-known odd person.
• lazyless (32) - Said of those who are active since they lack laziness.
• leafwards (15) - The area of a tree-like structure which is furthest from the root.
• locquaciousness (43) - That which is unterse.
• lucubrative (13) - Someone or something that works through the night. Cf. lucubration.
• metaerrata (0) - An errata given for another errata.
• metaparser (349) - A parser which creates a parser.
• namestorm (191) - The process of coming up with a name for a project.
• orchestrative (377) - The manner of that which orchestrates.
• puppetesque (36) - In the manner of that which is puppet-like.
• recursonym (4) - An acronym whose first letter expands to the acronym itself; e.g. GNU.
• synedochic (53) - That which is both chic and synedoche.
• volumniously (37) - To produce or do something in great volume.

The following were Googlecounted on 2004-05-31:

• inarguable (12,100) - Assuredly right.
• exportion (194) - The practice of exportion.
• parkwalkian (0) - Easy. Example: "doing CL in any kind of assembly language isn't particularly parkwalkian"
• succintity (4) - The condition of being succint.
• splourishing (0) - @@
• mannerismless (0) - Being without mannerisms.
• neoaquaism (0) - A new drink.
• lazyless (4) - Being without laze; brisk.
• horridity (144) - Horridness. Example: "ignoring the horridity of that URI".
• regulurker (1) - Regular lurker. Example: "well, you're an old Swhack regulurker".
• acceptancy (787) - The condition of acceptance. Example: "full apology acceptancy".
• statisticalizer (0) - One with a propensity for gathering statistics. Example: "given that I'm an obsessive statisticalizer".
• fruitineering (0) - The process of picking fruit. Example: "picking fruit--fruitineering--by torchlight".
• epiphanical (151) - The nature of having epiphanies. Example: "Sal and His Epiphanical Cattle Herders"
• phrasicon (94) - Vocabulary of phrases.
• grasplessnesses (0) - Inabilities to grasp. Example: "kids and their nuancical grasplessnesses".
• babblemaker (2) - One who makes babble. Example: "The Babblemaker's Art".
• pulnomious (0) - @@
• labiescent (0) - @@ Bright shining lips?
• theresince (94) - Since that point. Example: "the quality of my email experience has increased tenfold theresince".
• inquite (873) - @@
• triangloform (0) - Being of a triangular form.
• fortuneaire (14) - Male possessing a lot of money. Example: "to become a fortuneaire".
• digestify (830) - Mull over. Example: "should probably try to digestify some of tonight's chat"
• syryphy (0) - @@
• concentratedful (0) - Full of concentration. Example: "half concentratedful and knowledgescent gaze".
• knowledgescent (0) - Full of knowledge. Example: "half concentratedful and knowledgescent gaze".
• decircumlocute (0) - Make more terse; go by less circuitious prose.
• delectation (22,900) - @@
• pseudonuglet (0) - Not quite a small nugget.
• trepidates (14) - To trepidate. It's a verb now. Example: "how thine own self-initated falling from grace trepidates me".
• tranquilitously (0) - In the manner of being tranquil.
• interpretranslating (0) - Portmanteau of interpreting and translating. Example: "thanks for interpretranslating for us".
• crackpottishness (4) - Adjectival form of crackpot. Example: "assess the crackpottishness of the project on a scale of your own choosing".
• gretching (57) - Portmanteau of gripe and kvetch. Example: "stop gretching about the picture".
• agreeeth (9) - Agree + -eth suffix. Agrees.
• muchliness (4) - Nominal form of doing something in the manner of much.
• degenderify (1) - To make a word genderless.
• pronominalize (568) - To make a word into a pronoun.

2004-03:

• joinance, n (1) - #swhack 2004-03-12

2004-02:

• greppist, n. (0) - cf.
• centripetality
• classificatiana, n. (0) (also: 2001)

2004-01:

• postlogue, n. (316) - A post-work introduction.

2004-01-05:

• vocabularous, adj. (0) - Pertaining to vocabulary.
• solitudinally, adv. (1) - Conducted in the manner of solitude.

2004-01-22:

• dewcatcher, n. (31) - That which catches dew; grass, cobwebs, leaves.

2004-01-25:

• interreminiscent, adj. (0) - "I presume that they use the same method as spammers since the lists are interreminiscent"

2004-01-29:

• ephemiphenomenon, n. (0) - just another ephemiphenomenon... from an email to Marc Canter.

@@ words from the article to Aaron

Excerpted from miscoranda's 58:

• activitometer, n. (2) - A device which measures the level of activity within a system. Original context: "an activitometer would be so great".
• amibientic, adj. (0) - The adjecteval form of "ambience". Original context: "an amibientic dimension".
• gemheap, n. (1) - A collection of valuable objects; originally: smorgheap.
• idyllatry, n. (4) - The nominal form of "idyllic".
• insultation, n. (3,090) - A stream of insults. Original context: "fed up with this constant insultation".
• oftenlyish, adv. (0) - Nonce variant of "oftenish". Original context: "I do that oftenlyish too".
• oodlefull, n. (0) - A lot; a great quantity of a thing. Variant spelling: oodleful. Original context: "I can provide that by the oodlefull".
• verbular, adj. (47) - Inclined to use verbs. Original context: "it makes people less verbular, so I guess so".

Also, from various places (googlecounted 2004-01-24):

• owlling (0)
• schkurdle (16)
• phenomic (8,160)
• loqutentious (5)
• cyrker (68), with Aaron

Compounds and Mutations:

• smaugheap (0), gemheap (5)
• googlecount (199)
• thoroughpac磬y (0)
• compenetratively (2)
• colloquialization (50), colloquializer (0)
• whyn't (1,300), mayn't (8,590)
• topwards (194)