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#64557 - Looking for a word

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:22 am
by Katya
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/64557/

I regret to inform Gimgimno that I knew the meaning of the word "quincunx" before reading this question. (Although, by "regret to inform Gimgimno," I may mean "am smug about showing of to Gimgimno." :roll:)

For those who are interested, a "quincunx" is pattern of five objects arranged with four in a square and the fifth in the middle, like the five on a die.

Re: #64557 - Looking for a word

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:43 am
by Katya
Also, I haven't found a word that fits the definition the reader was looking for, but I did come across the 15th century word "chantepleure," which means "a mixture or alternation of joy and sorrow."

Re: #64557 - Looking for a word

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:07 pm
by Tao
Why wouldn't xenophily work; seeing how xenophobia isn't so strictly defined as fear of strange people, but anything that is strange or foreign to one's experience?

Re: #64557 - Looking for a word

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:09 pm
by Emiliana
Katya wrote:http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/64557/

I regret to inform Gimgimno that I knew the meaning of the word "quincunx" before reading this question. (Although, by "regret to inform Gimgimno," I may mean "am smug about showing of to Gimgimno." :roll:)
Me too. :D

Re: #64557 - Looking for a word

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:45 pm
by Sky Bones
Katya wrote:http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/64557/

I regret to inform Gimgimno that I knew the meaning of the word "quincunx" before reading this question. (Although, by "regret to inform Gimgimno," I may mean "am smug about showing of to Gimgimno." :roll:)

For those who are interested, a "quincunx" is pattern of five objects arranged with four in a square and the fifth in the middle, like the five on a die.
You mean showing off? :D

Re: #64557 - Looking for a word

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:20 pm
by Katya
Sky Bones wrote:
Katya wrote:http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/64557/

I regret to inform Gimgimno that I knew the meaning of the word "quincunx" before reading this question. (Although, by "regret to inform Gimgimno," I may mean "am smug about showing of to Gimgimno." :roll:)

For those who are interested, a "quincunx" is pattern of five objects arranged with four in a square and the fifth in the middle, like the five on a die.
You mean showing off? :D
:lol: Awesome. That'll teach me to be smug about anything.