Sunday, January 30, 2022

Zzzz... Are you suffereing from DYSANIA?

What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...

DYSANIA [dis-AY-nee-uh]  (noun)

The state of having a hard time waking up and getting out of bed in the morning

"Will our postdigital universe emerge carelessly from the griffonages of a soggy-brained professor, afflicted with dysania, or from some bio-powered hard drive afflicted by a crapulent program created by some cocaine-addicted technician working a second job in a meth lab?"
--Peter McLaren, Petar Jandric, Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology (2020)



Monday, January 17, 2022

Are you feeling SOMNICULOUS?

What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...

SOMNICULOUS [som-NIC-yoo-luss]  (adjective)

Sleepy or drowsy

"She soon went to sleep, but dreamt of distresses and vexations, of exertions demanded, and powers not to be excited; of falling from precipices, of painful adieus, and of boats foundering in shoreless waters, and was haunted by all the train of somniculous misery, which the superstitious resolve into causes, and the less weak into effects."
--Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, The Countess and Gertrude (1812)
(TWITO, page 139)