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A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words

Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips.
Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on.
Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge.
Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone.
Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you.
Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.
Autolatry - The worship of one’s self.
Cagamosis - An unhappy marriage.
Gargalesthesia - The sensation caused my tickling.
Capernoited - Slightly intoxicated or tipsy.
Lalochezia - The use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain.
Cataglottism - Kissing with tongue.
Basorexia - An overwhelming desire to kiss.
Brontide - The low rumbling of distant thunder.
Grapholagnia - The urge to stare at obscene pictures.
Agelast - A person who never laughs.
Wanweird - An unhappy fate.
Dystopia - Am imaginary place of total misery. A metaphor for hell.
Petrichor - The smell of dry rain on the ground.
Anagapesis - The feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did.
Malapert - Clever in manners of speech.
Duende - Unusual power to attract or charm.
Concilliabule - A secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot.
Strikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.
Lygerastia - The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.

Ayurnamat - The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.
Sphallolalia - Flirtatious talk that leads no where.
Baisemain - A kiss on the hand.
Druxy - Something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotten inside.
Mamihlapinatapei - The look between two people in which each loves the other but is too afraid to make the first move.

(Source: maddierose)

vital mandrake information:
the male mandrake is white, has a beetlike stem, is hairy and terminates in a single root. the female mandrake is black, has a lettucelike stem, is fleshy and terminates in two forking roots.
the flowers fruit into small orange berries with a strong, apple-like scent. these are called satan’s apples.
the roots are much valued as medicine though it is said that anyone that hears the mandrake’s shrieking dies or goes mad on the spot.
it was therefore a custom to tie a hungry dog to the plant by a cord and place a piece of meat beyond its reach. to get at the meat the dog tugged at the cord and dragged up the plant, while its master remained safe.
if the mandrake sees an unclean man coming to it, it will run away.
the mandrake can cure six ailments: headaches, earaches, gout, epileptic fits, muscle cramps, and unwanted viruses.
it is said that the plant springs from the seed or urine drippings of a man hanged on a gallows. in germany the plant bears the popular name of galgemannlein or the little gallows man
in 1908, a man digging in a neglected garden, cut a large root of mandrake with his spade and ceased to work at once, saying it was ‘awful bad luck’. before the week was out, he fell down some steps and broke his neck.
Fuck yeah Joyce DiDonato.