Definition and Examples of Word Aversion (or Logomisia)

Definition and Examples of Word Aversion (or Logomisia) In language considers, logomisia is a casual term for a solid aversion for a specific word (or kind of word) in view of its sound, which means, utilization, or affiliations. Otherwise called word repugnance orâ verbal infection. In a post on Language Log, phonetics teacher Mark Liberman characterizes the idea of word revultion as a sentiment of exceptional, silly dislike for the sound or sight of a specific word or expression, not on the grounds that its utilization is viewed as etymologically or sensibly or syntactically off-base, nor in light of the fact that it’s felt to be over-utilized or repetitive or popular or non-standard, however essentially on the grounds that the word itself by one way or another feels horrendous or even disgusting.â Moistâ A Web website called Visual Thesaurus requested that its perusers rate the amount they like or aversion certain words. Also, the second-most-abhorred word was clammy. (A companion once said that she disdains cake blends that are publicized as being extra-wet since that fundamentally implies super-moist.) Oh, and the most-detested expression of everything was detest. So many individuals abhor hate.(Bart King, The Big Book of Gross Stuff. Gibbs Smith, 2010) My mom. She loathes inflatables and the word sodden. She considers it pornographic.(Ellen Muth as George Lass in Dead Like Me, 2002) Slobber My own assertion abhorrence is longstanding, and a very long while from the first occasion when I heard it I despite everything pull back, similar to the ribs of a newly opened clam. It is the action word to slobber, when applied to composed composition, and particularly to anything I myself have composed. Exceptionally pleasant individuals have let me know, for quite a while now, that a few things they have perused of mine, in books or magazines, have made them slobber. . . .I . . . ought to be appreciative, and even unassuming, that I have helped individuals to remember what fun it is, vicariously or not, to eat/live. Rather I am revolted. I see a slavering drooling throat. It spills powerlessly, in a Pavlovian reaction. It drools.(M.F.K. Fisher, As the Lingo Languishes. The State of the Language, ed. by Leonard Michaels and Christopher B. Ricks. College of California Press, 1979) Underwear Adriana recuperated first. Underwear is a detestable word, she said. She grimaced and purged the caipirinha pitcher into her glass. . . .Im simply calling attention to its relative grossness. All ladies abhor the word. Undies. Simply state it-undies. It makes my skin crawl.(Lauren Weisberger, Chasing Harry Winston. Downtown Press, 2008)He utilized the eraser end of a pencil to get a couple of womens clothing (actually, they were underwear tacky, fancy, red-yet I realize ladies get creeped out by that word-simply Google loathe the word panties).(Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl. Crown, 2012) Cheddar There are individuals who despise the sound of specific words-they would appreciate eating cheddar in the event that it had an alternate name, yet inasmuch as it is called cheddar, they will have none of it.(Samuel Engle Burr, An Introduction to College. Burgess, 1949) Suck Suck was a strange word. The individual called Simon Moonan that name since Simon Moonan used to tie the administrators bogus sleeves despite his good faith and the consul used to let on to be irate. Be that as it may, the sound was revolting. When he had washed his hands in the toilet of the Wicklow Hotel and his dad pulled the plug up by the chain after and the filthy water went down through the opening in the bowl. Also, when it had all gone down gradually the opening in the bowl had made a sound that way: suck. Just louder.(James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916) The Disgust Response Jason Riggle, an educator in the branch of etymology at the University of Chicago, says word revultions are like fears. In the event that there is a solitary focal trademark to this, it’s most likely that it’s an increasingly instinctive reaction, he says. The [words] summon queasiness and appall instead of, state, irritation or good shock. Also, the sicken reaction is activated in light of the fact that the word inspires an exceptionally explicit and to some degree unordinary relationship with symbolism or a situation that individuals would commonly discover appalling yet don’t ordinarily partner with the word. These abhorrences, Riggle includes, don’t appear to be inspired exclusively by explicit letter blends or word qualities. On the off chance that we gathered enough of [these words], the reality of the situation might prove that the words that fall in this class share a few properties practically speaking, he says. However, it’s not the case t hat words with those properties in like manner consistently fall in the category.(Matthew J.X. Ailment, Why Do We Hate Certain Words? Record, April 1, 2013) The Lighter Side of Logomisia Our topic this time was an Ugliest Word Contest: everybody needed to give up with an indication around their neck on which would be composed the ugliest word they could consider. All the language specialists present would later pass judgment on the best passage. . . .On the couch were PUS and EXPECTORATE. On the floor, sitting leg over leg in a half hover before the stone chimney, and all adjusting paper plates stored high with nachos, hummous, and guacamole, I spotted RECTUM, PALPITATE, and PLACENTA (as one of the language specialists, I realized that placenta would be disposed of rapidly from the running: while it inferred a monstrous picture, its phonetic acknowledgment was quite flawless). In an awesome occurrence, SMEGMA . . . was snuggling up to SCROTUM against the storeroom entryways in the kitchen. . . .As I strolled around, I understood that a ton of these words would make extraordinary band names: e.g., FECAL MATTER (state: preclude), LIPOSUCTION, EXOSKELETON.(Jala Pfaff, S educing the Rabbi. Blue Flax Press, 2006) Elocution: low-go-ME-zha