I like words. I know a fair few of them. I want to know more. What are your favorite esoteric words?

  • limonade@jlai.lu
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    3 days ago

    I don’t care for esoterism but I love words and I keep a journal where I note any new words I learn, nice proverbs and citations and anything I find pretty. It is basically my personnal dictionary.
    One of my last entries was : lixivifaction.

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      3 days ago

      Sure, there are many great words regardless of popularity, but esoteric one are more likely to be new to me!

      That one doesn’t turn up in my DDG search, could you elaborate?

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        2 days ago

        Oups I added an extra f : lixiviaction. So it was my phone that change it because it just change it a second tome. It is a french word but I imagine it could also exist in english build the same way. It is the extraction of soluble principale by washing. From latin “lixivius”. To leach. I found a wiktionary page for it : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lixiviate#English