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What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know? (leminal.space)

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Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.

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[–] NostraDavid 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

I've got six of them:

Tittynope: "A small amount left over; a modicum."
Cacography: "bad handwriting or spelling."
Epeolatry: "the worship of words."
Kakistocracy: "a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens."
Oikophilia: "love of home"
Tenebrous: "dark; shadowy or obscure"

[–] NostraDavid 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Got another one, and it's one that programmers should know, IMO. Within CompSci it can be used to denote that things are interdependent on each other in different ways. Connascence of name, connascence of meaning, etc. Makes you think about the complexity of software that you're building. Props to Jim Weirich (RIP 2014) for doing a presentation on this.

Connascence:

the simultaneous birth of two or more things
the act of growing at the same time

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