What’s a respectful, validating synonym for superstitious? Like a “superstitious” belief a group or certain spiritual culture holds.

Silly request, but I’ve scheduled my fiancé and I to design custom fragrances the night before our wedding and am struggling to think of a name that symbolizes this. Looking for a more creative way to say fresh start.

IDK how to explain it but it happens in both “Harpy Hare” and “Talia” from the ride the cyclone musical. I just really enjoy how the vocals sound when singers do this.

I believe it has the letter “p” (not that reliable memory indeed) and is consisted of 4 letters but googling isn't much of help. Appreciate your help in advance!

Honestly, I'm not sure quite what word I'm trying to grasp. This has been bothering me for weeks because I had an idea for a passion project with a name that was some word having to do with color. I'm pretty sure it meant very colorful or vibrant. I also could've dreamed up a word that doesn't exist... but Google isn't cutting it.

You know how you can watch a film and think the effects look amazing but then ten years later you could watch it again and suddenly it’s like your eyes have been opened and you can now see how fake they look?

Is there a specific word/phrase for that?

Like if you're being kissed, for example, you kind of "melt", right? I need a word (if there is one which I'm pretty sure there is; I just can't seem to put my finger on it) other than melted.

Thank you to whoever responds!

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I definitely remember hearing about this word but not being in the environment to really commit it to memory (doomscrollin probly)

And im thinking in terms of elbow grease and effort. With the circumstance i was told i needed it as a kid and how it doesnt make sense to me now that im thinking about it with an adult amount of effort and a more acutely aware brain (destructive criticism is what it boils down to for me)

Its a technical term as well, like its a whole word, not related at all to effort, i just thought it was helpfull context, its confusing in hindsight |P

Being lonely is when you're by yourself, and it sucks because you're by yourself (or feel you're by yourself). But ITAW for when you're surrounded by people, and it sucks because you're surrounded by people? The closest I can think of would probably be overstimulated, but I was wondering if there's another, more specific antonym.

So technically this is a "what's another phrase for" question. Everywhere I have heard the phrase "information economy" used, I swear it's been in the context of an abstract system, in which information is shared, received, and used by a people. I've heard it during political discussions mostly, but when I was googled it just in case I was using it wrong in my research essay title, I totally was. I can't find anywhere that uses this phrase in this way. Does anyone know another word or phrase that would mean this? Or maybe another word for economy that less literal, and more so conceptually covers an area of life? I really hope this makes sense to anyone other than me lol

not in a meek way but like someone who dislikes getting compliments because that means that the people who gave them said compliments know them? or have made their own opinions of them?

like someone who dislikes being told “what a strong thinker” because that means that the person who told them that holds that perception of them in their minds.

someone who doesn’t want to “be” anyone.

someone who wants to “be” someone but doesn’t know who that someone is?

Benign masochism is too tame, but emotional masochism is too extreme. Any ideas?

I remember back in the day people on reddit and other Internet forums would drop a link to a backup/secondary source of a piece of media content, and there was a certain word for it.

Example - I post a website link, and I add a comment with a backup link to the same article/page on archive.org in case the primary link goes down. Or I’d post and image link and add a secondary link to the same image on a different host.

The word is like ‘second’ or ‘backup’ but it was a short word. Internet lingo people help me out please!

Basically what the title says honestly, I just saw a harrowing ending of a short comic online and it just left me feeling empathetic for the protag, like I felt like I've been in their situation before but in a different way obv

What I mean is the sort of calm born from terror, like something happened that will severely impact your life and there's nothing you can do. Stillness, with anxiety and despair thinly covered beneath

Also it doesn't have to be the case necessarily, but especially if you're responsible for the situation in the first place Thank you!!!

Looking for a word or slang that describes fancy, formal, classy dress.

Examples: Steve Stevens. Will Williams. John Johnson. Ned Nederburg. And so on.

No reason for asking, I just saw someone with a name like that and the thought entered my mind.

For reference: I was sitting by a campfire with some friends and mentioned putting some more tinder in. Everyone laughed as they assumed I had meant to say ’kindling’ and got confused, when in reality I was the only one who seemed to know that the word ‘tinder’ doesn’t just refer to a dating app.

I suppose you could call it a reverse faux-pas? Is there a word to describe this?

I was wondering if there was a word for when someone is trying to be cunning/smart, but instead comes across as dumb for whatever reason (like, actually being dumb, overlooking one key aspect of the problem, overthinking it to the point of ridiculousness).

I think a good example is the part in the princess bride when Vizzini overthinks the two glasses and ends up drinking poison while thinking he won.

Another example is in reality TV competitions, when someone is trying to scheme and play mind games and get other contestants on their side, but they end up alienating everyone instead.

More specifics: like a deep internal need that this person experience the utmost joy and avoids all suffering. My little brother and I aren't close and don't see each other often but when I'm with him this is how I feel and it causes a physical pain at the idea he may ever experience suffering. I imagine this is how parents feel when they first have a baby

edit with some additional context since I don't think it's normal love:

I love my husband and it doesn't cause me pain being around him because of this feeling. It's an overwhelming feeling. I've also experienced it a few times towards people I don't know necessarily but whom I perceive as vulnerable. Like there was a kid I worked with in a church kids class who had pretty profound autism and I felt this way for him too to the point I think I cried, but I couldn't say I loved that kid. I felt that way randomly about a guy I saw in college who just seemed really universally happy, and I felt this. it tends to be towards kids, but it certainly isn't limited

If i wanna use a noun (or adjective depending On the scenario) to describe something that has traditionally served as a paradigm to be emulated or referred to. For ex: “what is the ___spell for a money working?” I’m asking what’s this traditional spell to attract money my way.

I am trying to search a word or phrase for how it makes you feel when someone who is advanced in something and claims they are absolutely shit at what they do, and then proceed to tell you, that your work or skills are good, and then you proceed to feel very conflicted because the person simultaneously hates their skills and work and tells you as less skilled are good.

E.g. a friend says "i suck at art, how can anyone draw" and they are objectively more skilled than me, and then tell me how i am really good at art and it makes me feel like those compliments are really ingenuine because they just shat on their own skills and work which are better.

Example; They used to be hostile, and they're definitely not friends, but these days they're ______ with each other.

It means casual, accepting, not actively hostile but not kind to each other either. I feel like it starts with a C. Not cool, courteous, curt...

SOLVED.. please stop commenting suggestions lol... I don't get why I'm still getting comments on a solved post two days later unless they're all from bots 😩

Sorry for the imagery, but I think of it of the kind of determination that would make you break out of being buried alive. It's a raw, raging determination to survive. The kind of determination that makes you scratch, bite, kick, punch, scream of rage that you won't let yourself be killed. Is there a word for that? Especially to contrast from a more passive or cold determination where you would scheme or stand unphased. It's also somewhat a "victorious" determination compared to the determination where you just push through.

Is there a word (or phrase) for when someone refers to a person by a description, before knowing the person's name?

For example, "that's blue hat guy", (but his name isn't blue hat guy)

I think this way of describing somebody may be used in teenage centered movies, sort of like mean girls, but I'm not really sure if that's relevant :)

Thank you for any help :)

(Also I posted this twice because the title was too short sorry)