Most liked posts in thread: A Word A Day : pygmalionism

Is this a new thread concept?

I like it! Thanks for the vocabulary

 

cool word...I'll have to find a way to use it today.

Here's my contribution..not a word, but more slang:

Was watching "16 and pregnant" on MTV (please don't ask why, I question myself)...and this couple was arguing about going out to have fun now that that they have twin babies and the guy uses the statement "it's not like we are having Target or WalMart fun...." I think he was comparing that to having fun going out with friends...anyways fell off my couch laughing at that.

 

LOL- Target or Walmart fun??????

I'll have to use that :lol:

 

2. The condition of loving an inanimate object such as a statue or your MINI

 

Or just loving your MINI? :ihih:

 

pygmalionism; the eating of little people by lions, pygmalionism. :arf:

Nathan, I couldn't resist.::lol::lol::lol:

A word a day! Great idea.:cornut:

 

Falling in love with an inanimate statue or doll is Agalmatophilia. To be pygmalionism it must be an object of your own making. Pygmalion is the name of a sculptor, in Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, who falls in love with a statue he creates.

You know you suffer from pygmalionism when you fall in love with the mods you've made to your MINI.

 

Cool I like new words.

Mark

 

Nah, that is a blurred line, nothing fine about it. There is too much overlap.

For example, both could apply to a situation where one is in sexually attracted to a self made statue. Maybe we need a new word: pygmalionagaltophilia.

And if it was a statue of yourself, than it could be narcissopymalionagaltophilia.

And if it was an inflatable statue of yourself (some of us would require an air compressor in this situation where others may be able to get by with a bicycle pump), it would be aeronarcissopymalionagaltophilia.

Now THAT is a killer word.

 

With smell checker, I can write anything:lol:

Mark