Once the preliminaries are out of the way, “The Brutalist” (the word, never spoken in the film, describes a school of monumental modern architecture reliant on blocky forms and raw concrete construction) settles on its major theme, that of Lazlo’s relationship with an American millionaire wh...
We bring you the longest words ever. Don't read this if you have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words).
This word later became translated into “having many syllables.” It was first used by the ancient Roman poet, Horace, to warn his students against using words that are too long. The word concludes with the phrase “phobia,” which is usually placed at the end of a term to mean a “...
Interestingly, these long words are not overly long, making them appeal to people with a phobia of long words.The top examples of long words about love are:Twitterpated Monomaniacal Heavenlinesses Perfervidly Bewitching Pulchritudinously Aphrodisiacal Attractiveness...
To dismiss, police, or downplay someone’s sexuality on the basis of their gender presentation has its roots in femmephobia and biphobia. “It says that femmes are unfit to sleep with other queers,” says Maggie McMuffin, “bec...
phobia"irrational fear, horror, or aversion; fear of an imaginary evil or undue fear of a real one," 1786, perhaps based on a similar use in French, abstracted from compounds in -phobia, the word-forming element from Greek phobos "fear, panic fear, terror, outward show of fear; object...
3.Some people worry about being the target of laughter.These people are frightened.They suffer from an emotional disorder called gelotophobia.That long name comes from the Greek language.The word Gelos means laugh,while phobos means fear. ...
Some people worry about being the target of laughter.These people are frightened.They suffer from an emotional disorder called gelotophobia.That long name comes from the Greek language.The word Gelos means laugh while phobos means fear. Victor Rubio is an expert on human behavior at the Autonomo...
Some people worry about beingthe target of laughter.These people are frightened.They suffer from an emotional disorder calledgelotophobia.That long name comes from the Greek language.The word Gelos means laugh, while phobos means fear. Victor Rubio is an expert on human behavior at the Autonomous...
7.From Hispanophobia to Quixotephilia: The Politics of Quixotism in the British Long Eighteenth Centur y1Pedro Javier PardoAbstractThis chapter explores the reception of Don Quixote in the British long eighteenth century in the context of the tension between traditional politi-cal Hispanophobia and...