FASHION Magazine
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SNP’s word of the day: Unhate
Word: Unhate
Usage: Unhate.Benetton.com
Definition: A Toni Braxton-esque made-up word to sell sweaters and preach social tolerance.
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SNP’s word of the day: Anomie
Word: Anomie
Meaning: A malaise, or an exaggerated feeling of being at loose ends, caused by the loss of values, social norms, and sense of purpose.
Usage: “Social media [networks] temper the anonymity and anomie that consumerism’s mass markets tend to impose by concretely attaching our identity to what we consume. They also provide new mechanisms of solace, administering doses of proof of our connectedness and influence. (As in: Oh, look! I’ve been retweeted!)” — The New Inquiry
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SNP’s word of the day: Emo-hop
Word: Emo-hop
Meaning: If you guessed that it’s “hip-hop with emo(tional) lyrics,” you don’t get a prize.
Usage: “Drake has raised his game significantly, cornering the market in emo-hop. There’s few ‘hands in the air’ moments, but instead there’s depth and intelligence here that makes him stand out from the crowd.” — NME.com
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SNP’s word of the day: Millennial
Word: Millennial
Meaning: A one-size-fits-all tag for the generation of “kids” born in the ’80s, early ’90s.
Usage: “The millennial generation might just be the most talked-about generation around.” — David Burstein, in the New York Times
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SNP’s word of the day: Melancholia
Word: Melancholia
Meaning: A gloomy state anywhere between sober pensiveness and habitual depression.
Usage: “ALL the morbid states of depressed feeling, or, as more commonly expressed, of mental depression, are comprised under the term melancholia.” — from Clinical lectures on mental diseases by Thomas Smith Clouston (1884)
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SNP’s word of the day: Callipygian
Word: Callipygian
Meaning: Having beautiful buttocks. No, really. It’s from the Greek kallipygos, from kalli- + pyg? Buttocks.
Usage: “Those dusky Afro-Scandinavian buttocks, which combine the callipygian rondure observed among the races of the Dark Continent with the taut and noble musculature of sturdy Olaf, our blond Northern cousin.” — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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SNP’s word of the day: Seraph
Word: Seraph
Meaning: Literally “burning ones,” and refers to six-winged celestial beings in the Bible, which circled the throne, or something.
Usage: “Maidens like moths, are ever caught by glare, and Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair” — Lord Byron
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SNP’s word of the day: Coulrophobia
Word: Coulrophobia
Meaning: The abnormal fear of clowns.
Usage: “In discussions of causes of coulrophobia, [most] seem to agree that the most fear-inducing aspect of clowns is the heavy makeup which, accompanied by the bulbous nose and weird color of hair, completely conceal the wearer’s identity.” — artofclowning.com
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SNP’s word of the day: Obscurant
Word: Obscurant
Meaning: As an adjective, it can mean a few things, including simply something (like smoke, or clouds) that obscures something else. As a noun, more importantly, it means an opposer of intellectual progress, political reform and/or enlightenment.
Usage: “The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
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SNP’s word of the day: Star-crossed
Word: Star-crossed
Meaning: Ill-fated in love.
Usage: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” — Romeo and Juliet
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SNP’s word of the day: Paternity
Word: Paternity
Meaning: The legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a man and a child.
Usage: “As her boyfriend Justin Bieber began fighting a paternity suit accusing him of fathering a fan’s child out of wedlock, Selena Gomez put aside any upset she could be feeling to attend the “Stars” gala at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday night.” — the L.A. Times
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SNP’s word of the day: Beschamel
Word: Beschamel
Meaning: Hilarious made-up word for the (ex)union of Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard; also sounds like a delicious cheese
Usage: “Bryn Gimmirds and Zoomy! Beschamel broke up??” — the inimitable Richard Lawson on Twitter
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