December 2, 2019 - 80 - Brilliant Inventions Series 2: "A New Word!"

My Multifaceted Inventor Life 

     You might think it would be enough for me to 'just' invent life-changing cat-people relationship- building gadgets.

     Or maybe that I'd rest on my laurels after inventing the latest dance craze. (That I can't actually perform, so it might not catch on as quickly as I'd like.)

Brief Break for Ginsu-Wordsmith Infomercial

     But I also invent words!   Perhaps you're familiar with my other word inventions:  ambi-cognitive, Chreftovers, textovers, and postovers? 

   Yes, I invented all of those! *

   * Be sure to send me a nickel every time you utilize these super-useful words.  Or, alternatively, feel free to leave a positive review when I start selling licenses for these words on Etsy or Amazon.  For a mere 25 cents you can have unlimited use of any one of these words for a full year. 

    Or, if you'd like to wow your friends and colleagues with your creative vocabulary you can buy all of these words for the bargain-basement price of 99 cents!   

     Yes.  That's what I said:  99 cents!  For less then the cost of a single dollar-store-item ,you can have a lifetime of absolutely no-strings-attached use of these words.  

     But wait!  There's more!  Again, for that tiny investment in your scholarly-sounding future, you can have all of the benefits previously mentioned, PLUS...you may use the following word...for life!

    Without further ado....(Well, actually, a little drumroll would be just the right amount of  'ado').....  

And Now...:  My Brand-Spankin' New Word!

     Here is my latest word-creation that will be sweeping the nation.  

     Don't forget:  You heard it here first!

Co • pa • thet • ic 

 /ˌkōpəˈTHedik /

adjective

1. 1.

   excessive emotional or psychological need to outdo a partner in how pitiful, vulnerable, sick, and/or sad you are.  

   "they had the flu simultaneously and fought over whose temperature was higher...without a doubt the most copathetic couple I've ever seen!"
2. 
   

Origin:    co + 

Late 16th century (in the sense ‘affecting the emotions’): via late Latin from Greek pathētikos ‘sensitive’, based on pathos ‘suffering’.early 21st century: origins:  English-ish.  Combining:  codependent, pathetic, with the near-homonym copacetic.  

 
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     This word I give you at absolutely no extra charge.



     You're welcome.

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"Good words are worth much, and cost little."

-George Herbert

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"Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily."*

-Zig Ziglar

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*"Even if you have to make them up to do it!"
-Susan Stewart

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"I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician.  I get by.  I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary."

-Tom Waits

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