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Word: Ectype

Meaning: An exact copy. Also, the externalization of an idea, like an archetype, which—when repeated sufficiently—becomes a stereotype.

Usage: To paraphrase the Beastie Boys, “She’s crafty, and she’s just my ectype.”

Word: Hackerazzi

Meaning: An unholy union of the words “hacker” (computer criminal) and “paparazzi” (celeb-chasers).

Usage: “The [FBI] confirmed that actress Scarlett Johansson is named as one of the victims. Other victims in the investigation, dubbed Operation Hackerazzi, were not named.” — L.A. Times

Word: F***sten

Meaning: See below.

Usage: “Kristen… knows about names: the “Robstens” (those who think K-Stew” and R-Patz” are together); the “Nonstens” (those fans who think they aren’t) and the “F***stens” (those who say they don’t give a monkey’s either way — but actually really do).” From a GQ UK cover story on Ms. Stewart, on newsstands now.

Word: Coup

Meaning: a takeover; the usurping of ruling powers.

Usage: “I feel sure that coups d’état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything” — Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

Word: Orientalism

Meaning: The falsely glam-ified depiction of Eastern people and culture by Western image makers.

Usage: “Orientalism tend fatally towards the systematic accumulation of human beings and territories.” — Edward Said, author of (ta-da!) Orientalism

Word: Luciferina

Meaning: she-devil

Usage: “Knox was a ‘luciferina’—a she-devil—capable of a special, female duplicity.” — from an LA Times opinion piece on “the scapegoating of Amanda Knox”

Word: Dude

Meaning: Slang term for cool guy or cowboy, although meanings have shifted and accumulated over the years.

Usage: “I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. That, or His Dudeness… Duder… or El Duderino, if, you know, you’re not into the whole brevity thing.” ― The Dude, in The Big Lebowski

Word: Scuttlebutt

Meaning: Idle gossip, spilled rumours.

Word: Photorealism

Meaning: A way of painting based around photographs, faithfully recreating every realistic nuance to create a hyper-lifelike image.

Word: Ambimorphous

Meaning: Well, Hussein Chalayan made it up, but he took inspiration from Alice in Wonderland, in which Alice grows and changes rapidly in one of two opposing directions.

Usage: “The clothes represent forms that are, so to speak, ‘ambimorphous,’ where all forms can morph in two different directions…” ― Hussein Chalayan

Word: Exteriorization Meaning: The physical manifestation of an intangible or abstract thing; in psychiatry. Usage: “’Now this is a so-called catalytic exteriorization phenomenon,’ Jung insisted. ‘Oh, no, that is complete nonsense,’ Freud replied.” — Arts Journal You should know it because: Prada showed a va-va-vroom collection last week, plastering auto motifs—cartoon flames, actual car decals—over […]

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Word: Hikikomori

Meaning: Literally “pulling away, being confined,” i.e., “acute social withdrawal” — Wikipedia

Usage: “…In Japan, where uniformity is still prized and reputations and outward appearances are paramount, rebellion comes in muted forms, like hikikomori.” — from a 2006 New York Times article, “Shutting Themselves In”