lexicalalaya
Our collection of words that we have invented to name ideas, phenomena, or concepts that lacked a precise existing expression.
We honour the ancient wisdom of writing— blending and compounding; drawing on roots from ancient China, India, Egypt, and the Greco-Roman world.
“To name something is to dream of its future—and the place it will hold in the world.”
-The Last Airbender-
lexicalalaya n.
Etymology.
Hybrid: English lexical adj. “relating to words or vocabulary” (< Greek lexikos “of words,” from lexis “word,” ultimately PIE leg- “to collect, gather”) + Sanskrit ālaya (आलय) n./m. “abode, dwelling, receptacle, place” (< ā- + √lī “to cling, adhere, rest, settle”). V (Monier-Williams s.v. ālaya; standard etymologies of lexical). The formation deliberately echoes classical Sanskrit compounds such as pustakālaya and granthālaya (“book-abode” = library).
Definitions
A collection or repository of coined words invented to name ideas, phenomena, or concepts that previously lacked a precise existing expression.
The practice or project of assembling such a collection by compounding and blending roots drawn from multiple ancient linguistic traditions (notably Sanskrit, Chinese, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman).
attrib. Of or relating to such a collection or practice (lexicalalayan).
pracyutihumanism, n.
Etymology.
Sanskrit pracyuti (प्रच्युति) n., “a falling away, lapse, deviation, deprivation,” < pra- prefix “forth, away” + √cyu “to slip, fall away, deviate from, be deprived of” V (Monier-Williams, s.vv. √cyu, pracyuti), + English human adj. and n., + -ism suffix.
Definitions
The falling away of humanity from attainments already held, experienced or represented as the acquisition of new ones; a forfeiture of inherited capacity under the appearance of advance.
The doctrine or advocacy of this reading; specifically, the thesis that transhumanism constitutes a recurrence of eugenics divested of its metaphysical commitments and presented as a novel ascent, transcendence or surpassing.
attrib. (in pracyutic adj.) Of, relating to, or marked by such a falling away.
treasonwashing n.; v. to treasonwash
Etymology.
From the “-washing” family (greenwashing, pinkwashing, sportswashing, whitewashing), in which a vice is laundered by association with a virtue. Treasonwashing is the family’s inversion: a virtue (dissent, scrutiny, advocacy) is laundered into a vice (disloyalty) so that the underlying conduct being criticised escapes examination. First recorded use: 2026 (see §5.1 and the caveat at §9.1). U
Definitions
A two-sided laundering operation performed by a single conflation: on one side, a private beneficiary’s extraction from the public purse is washed as patriotism (“national security,” “border protection,” “sovereign capability”); on the other, the citizen who objects to the extraction is washed as a dissident, a security risk, or a foreign-aligned actor. The conflation does both jobs at once.
The practice or act of so laundering; v. to perform this operation.
attrib. Of, relating to, or marked by such laundering.