[HN Gopher] This Word Does Not Exist
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This Word Does Not Exist
Author : KomoD
Score : 169 points
Date : 2023-05-15 15:44 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| arxpoetica wrote:
| Many of these words ought to exist, ha. (As in, this is fun and
| clever.)
| diginova wrote:
| The write your own feature is case sensitive! so same words can
| have different meanings
| turtlesoup wrote:
| Author here; it's nice to see people using TWDNE even in the era
| of Midjourney v5 and GPT4. Always happy to answer questions if
| people have any!
| krossitalk wrote:
| I've had several like "According to facts and standards" or
| "standards and standards" or "facts and facts".
| wmil wrote:
| I think it invented two words...
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/A3pj
|
| niveescent (of a lens) producing a nive
| djmips wrote:
| Now this is where startups should be getting their names!
| rbalicki wrote:
| This word will soon be an OSS project/new startup/etc.
|
| Maldemoor. Brainslow. Chirminous. Hempress (if this _isn 't_ a
| smoke shop already...)
|
| All not bad.
| FireInsight wrote:
| Brainslow: A modern Anki-compatible spaced repetition learning
| app with customizable timescales.
| calibas wrote:
| vitanda a colorless liquid made by evaporation
| and, especially, by distillation or burning "the
| vitanda was red"
|
| kashmirang the basic monetary unit of Pakistan,
| equal to 100 grammes "the country is one of the few
| Southeast Asian countries remaining without an official
| kashmirang"
|
| terpent a metal object or container with a groove
| or recess, used in treating large quantities of liquids,
| especially by dissolving them in water "a plastic
| terpent disc"
|
| The usage example doesn't seem to follow the definition.
| g4zj wrote:
| I got "traceroute".
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/RhLG
| coda_ wrote:
| Oh dear:
|
| sickhies
|
| drunk, noisy, or sexually active adults "some older kids got
| sickhies' and had to be nursed"
| jandrese wrote:
| Hmm. I got a word that already exists, and worse the definition
| is horrific. flunkie a woman whose
| weight is too low for her skin to cover "a skinny flunkie
| from around the world"
|
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/flunkie/eyJ3IjogImZsd...
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| Never heard it in that context (which is awful for sure), but
| "flunkie" is commonly used to mean a lackey or other low-level
| obsequious worker. Almost like a henchman: the regional sales
| manager and his army of door-to-door flunkies.
| BeetleB wrote:
| That is written as flunkey. Different spelling.
| eigen wrote:
| Merriam-Webster has it as a less common spelling.
|
| https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flunkie
| Terr_ wrote:
| I've never seen it as that either. (So neither "flunkey"
| nor "flunkie".)
|
| AFAIK it's "flunky". (Plural "flunkies")
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| I've seen it as "flunkie" (singular) as well, though it may
| not be standard.
| paulddraper wrote:
| Agreed, this is familiar to me.
| ghilston wrote:
| Same, I had neovim. Which maybe isn't a Webster dictionary
| word, but is funny nontheless
| BoiledCabbage wrote:
| I got a word, where as far as I know it doesn't exist, but it
| I'm a bit disappointed in the definition.
|
| It seems like the unique value here would be using the
| roots/spelling of the word to be plausibly influence the
| definition. Its hard for me to think that a word with a root as
| straightforward as klepto would have the definition below.
|
| So still an interesting app in it's on way, but disappointing
| it didn't seem to take advantage of the important relationship
| of the roots of words.
|
| --------------- kleptoporosis
|
| klep*to*poro*sis
|
| suffering constipation when sleep is disturbed
|
| "more young women suffer from metabolic syndrome due to severe
| conditions such as kleptoporosis"
| airstrike wrote:
| Sounds like a case of malamanteau
|
| https://xkcd.com/739/
| dr_orpheus wrote:
| I feel like this could be a fun tool if you are writing some sort
| of speculative fiction and want to come up with reasonable
| sounding words with a plausible explanation and basis in Latin or
| Greek roots.
|
| Reminds me a bit of Anathem by Neal Stephenson. A lot of made up
| words based on smashing a combination of two other words/word
| roots (sometimes from different languages) together.
| tough wrote:
| That smashing is called portmanteau in french
| q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote:
| ...and a guy who invents those is called a portmanbreau.
| tough wrote:
| HAHAHA that made me laugh you're a portmanbreau now
| andrew___ wrote:
| the ultimate balderdash cheat sheet
| ryeguy_24 wrote:
| I'm wrong enough as it is. I really don't need to train my brain
| on erroneous training data. ;)
| comrh wrote:
| James Joyce would have loved this.
| rjmunro wrote:
| I got dickish, which is definitely a word:
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/xX5U
|
| Google finds it in many dictionary sites:
| https://www.google.com/search?q=dickish
| sneed_chucker wrote:
| I got "dullmindedness", which maybe isn't a dictionary word
| stricly speaking, but makes sense gramatically.
|
| https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dull-minded
| ashleyn wrote:
| I got:
|
| traglot tra*glot a small country with strong
| military assets "a treaty of multilateral traglot
| cooperation was signed"
| ibitto wrote:
| I am going to use this as a domain name generator. This is better
| than all the other generators I have seen.
| remram wrote:
| It seems like it should be easy to check the word against a
| dictionary. We all seem to be getting existing words with novel
| definitions.
| hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
| I thought this was cute, but so far none of the definitions I've
| seen make sense. And it's not that the definitions are just
| weird, they're simply nonsensical:
|
| squosh charm
|
| a short white and yellow telephone charm with light red or yellow
| spandex
|
| "in a little light they could wear a bright squosh charm"
|
| I mean, I guess those words parse syntactically but they don't
| make any sense.
| samus wrote:
| I got "recoveryism", which doesn't "exist", but is supposed to
| refer to the use of psychotherapy in, well, recovery.
| cbpowell wrote:
| This site is cromulent.
| ericzawo wrote:
| I feel embiggened after only a short time using it.
| RexM wrote:
| vomstruse
|
| 1. a kind of sexual intercourse at which semen has been
| ejaculated, typically by an ovum, while semen remains unharmed
|
| "I heard one woman say she had gone through the vomstruse after
| one night of sex"
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/4fFH
| evanwise wrote:
| This is a really fun use of language models. I wonder if more
| capable models would be better or worse in this kind of
| application? To some extent the charm comes from the whimsical
| aspect of it.
| GMoromisato wrote:
| I tried asking for the definition of various words that I'd made
| up for Transcendence (my video game). The results were not that
| great (IMO). I bet a human would do better:
|
| archcannon: TWDNE says "a cannon of a type used to fire
| artillery". My definition: a powerful weapon, usually the top-of-
| the-line for a design series."
|
| hexarcology: TWDNE says "the formation of an octave by the
| intersection of two lines on a line of symmetry". My definition:
| a digital arcology.
|
| hierosteel: TWDNE says "a hinged piece of glass attached to a
| wall or ceiling". My definition: "holy steel"; at type of alien
| metal that is particularly strong.
|
| wartech: TWDNE says "a tubular device for keeping a tube in place
| for washing a bath, toilet, etc." My definition: a
| programmer/engineer on a front-line military squad.
|
| What I really want is the opposite: I want to type in a
| definition and get back an appropriate made-up word.
| dheera wrote:
| Can we write a novel made up of >50% these words, print a million
| copies in acid-free paper and bury them in various places around
| the world and laugh at future historians?
| s1mon wrote:
| I couldn't help not putting a request into GPT4. I got some
| pretty good ones, and I assume with some tweaking and/or multiple
| cycles, you could get a big list.
|
| >Flambition (noun): The intense desire to achieve success or
| recognition through flamboyant or showy behavior. Example: His
| flambition led him to wear outrageous outfits and perform daring
| stunts in front of the crowd.
|
| Cellivacious (adjective): Displaying a lively and energetic
| nature when engaging with mobile devices, especially in social
| situations. Example: She became cellivacious whenever her phone
| buzzed, eager to respond to messages and check her social media
| feeds.
|
| Grumplestiltskin (noun): A person who frequently grumbles or
| complains about seemingly minor inconveniences, often to the
| annoyance of others. Example: Don't be a Grumplestiltskin - it's
| only a small delay in our plans.
|
| Confluderation (noun): The act of creating a temporary or
| makeshift solution to a problem by combining unrelated elements
| in a haphazard manner. Example: The broken chair was held
| together by a confluderation of duct tape, string, and
| clothespins.
|
| Inspiriscope (noun): A mental or emotional state in which one is
| highly receptive to new ideas, leading to increased creativity
| and productivity. Example: After a walk in nature, she felt an
| inspiriscope envelop her, and she effortlessly penned her best
| poem yet.
| groestl wrote:
| All those words now exist!
| s1mon wrote:
| Interestingly, a couple do show up in Urbandictionary [0][1],
| but the rest only show up in my post. Shockingly, Google has
| already indexed it.
|
| [0]
| https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flambitious
|
| [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grumplest
| ilt...
| doctor_eval wrote:
| This word DOES exist!
|
| > Grumplestiltskin (noun): Don't be a Grumplestiltskin
|
| In fact, I use this literal phrase frequently with my kids.
|
| (Also, but less frequently, with my partner)
| account-5 wrote:
| > Confluderation (noun): The act of creating a temporary or
| makeshift solution to a problem by combining unrelated elements
| in a haphazard manner. Example: The broken chair was held
| together by a confluderation of duct tape, string, and
| clothespins.
|
| The example basically describes all fixes make in the army.
| Black tape[0] and green string[1].
|
| [0] https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Harry_Black
|
| [1] https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Green_String
| andrelaszlo wrote:
| I laughed a bit at "doughball - ball of dough".
| pfdietz wrote:
| Add the constraint that the word shouldn't be a portmanteau.
| akiselev wrote:
| Then it just switches to Latin roots:
|
| _> Mortifraction: Morti- is derived from the Latin "mors"
| meaning "death", and "fraction" from the Latin "fractus"
| meaning "broken". This word could be used to describe a
| process involving the fragmentation or division of something
| with lethal or deadly consequences._
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortification
| mikeryan wrote:
| Would love to see this used in a spelling bee. From watching the
| last few years of the televised Scripps Spelling Bee it seems
| like most high level contestants can spell the words, not from
| memory so much as from constructing them from their root
| languages.
| madcaptenor wrote:
| disappointed by "glossoceratology". I got the definition "the
| study of particular groups of animals which are individually
| unique and have exceptional diversity" but clearly it should be
| the study of tongue horns.
| eternityforest wrote:
| It must be one of those not quite academic -ologies that was
| probably named by a non scientist author. Maybe they started
| out researching animals that had tongue horns, but when they
| didn't find any they branched out and never changed the name of
| the institute?
|
| Either that, or it's a translation of some kind of German idiom
| that means "It doesn't belong there, something totally natural
| that is nonetheless out of place" or "It is so disturbing it
| makes it uncomfortable to talk about as if there was a horn on
| your tongue".
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _This word does not exist_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776 - Oct 2021 (413
| comments)
|
| _Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962 - May 2020 (342
| comments)
| dvh wrote:
| self-driving vehicle
|
| self*-*driv*ing ve*hi*cle
|
| a small self-driving vehicle released from a gas station, used
| primarily to transport vehicles or cargo
|
| "they want to build the first self-driving vehicle in the US"
| [deleted]
| anonymouskimmer wrote:
| I got two words related to Biology/Ecology, which is odd as I'm a
| biologist.
|
| The first is also a last name:
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/brinke/eyJ3IjogImJyaW...
|
| The second is new:
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/monoprocent/eyJ3IjogI...
| marcodiego wrote:
| Endospasm exists:
| https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/endospasm/eyJ3IjogImV...
| lkbm wrote:
| Hmm...it's not in the OED, but Google search does find a patent
| using the term, and maybe a paper or two.
|
| It's surely not "en*dospasm", though. Weird that
| thisworddoesnotexist splits it up that way.
| raincole wrote:
| sternet (noun.)
|
| - the small intestine of certain birds (such as African ground
| squirrels) "sternets of milk and breastmilk"
|
| It looks wrong on so many levels...
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w8e8
| DerekBickerton wrote:
| For more of these types of projects check this:
|
| https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
| deafpolygon wrote:
| If it has been spoken, it is a word.
| drdeca wrote:
| I think it maybe needs to have been spoken with the intent to
| communicate or express a somewhat specific thing.
|
| Like, a couple seconds ago I vocalized the sounds "xzoubadoo",
| but I didn't attach any particular meaning to it, it was just
| an arbitrary collection of syllables, "spoken" to demonstrate a
| point, but without the intent that the sounds stand for
| anything.
|
| I don't think "xzoubadoo" is really a word. At least, not yet.
| I suppose one might (likely temporarily/in an ad-hoc way)
| assign it a meaning as a response to this comment, but I have
| not done so.
| michaelmrose wrote:
| So the definition is a meaningless sound.
|
| When one plays EAs The Sims games it's tempting to try to
| hear meaning in the sounds constantly emitted by the virtual
| folks but it's just xzoubadoo.
| jbaczuk wrote:
| This would be perfect for the game Balderdash
| paulddraper wrote:
| It generates existing words:
|
| trinitarium: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/KNY9
|
| proglyococcus: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/dquv
|
| nonrecursive: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/uALs
|
| I am somewhat amused by this one, which is the opposite of what I
| would have chosen:
|
| > adverb.
|
| > thriftyly
|
| > in an unusually generous or generous way
|
| > "they paid thriftyly to church"
|
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/PgbQ
| [deleted]
| pxoe wrote:
| got 'superthinness'. uhhhh ok https://www.merriam-
| webster.com/dictionary/superthin
|
| and just a bunch of words, that are kinda existing (handgunner?
| honeycake? etc), but it's just 'making up a new definition for
| them'. if i were to guess, given that gpt is built, trained
| around existing concepts, it's having a hard time coming up with
| something outside of that, and just ends up making something
| that's close to existing things. could be neat - 'it's almost
| like the real thing', but it also fails to be "truly novel". it's
| kinda not being given freedom to be truly random either (like
| coming up with 'smash on a keyboard' words that are actual
| nonsense).
| yakshaving_jgt wrote:
| _Sealware_.
|
| 1. A kind of electronic apparatus for sealing seals between
| seals, such as a sealant or a small metal plate, such as a door
| or hinge.
|
| Come on, this is brilliant.
| marshblocker wrote:
| When you create a word using an existing word, e.g. house, it
| will define the word using the word itself.
| adventured wrote:
| megg - a chicken in which the flesh is pressed into fine slices
|
| chowpaw - a small black-and-tan domestic cat with a small head
| and black back, found in the dark
|
| chachunga - a drink like kool-aid or candy, consisting of hot
| sauce, milk, and a small amount of liquor
|
| bunnet - a chain of rods having bunks for each arm
|
| dynamocomp - a container with two handles containing a continuous
| rotating system of fluid which keeps a load in. One of these is
| heated by the power of the other and can be carried on a strap
| suspended above an aircraft's nose for assistance, usually during
| takeoff or landing
| metadat wrote:
| Previously discussed 2 years ago:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776 (417 comments)
| wpietri wrote:
| Those who like this may also enjoy "Shelfbrain: Holy Trinity of
| Human Spelling", which is a physical dictionary of LLM-
| hallucinated words: https://shelfbrain.com/
| lloeki wrote:
| heh.
|
| https://shelfbrain.com/?q=emacs
|
| > an abbreviation of "electronic calculator"
| snalty wrote:
| I got "microdosing" which I'm pretty sure is a word.
|
| The definition was new though: "the injection of small amounts of
| a drug to a microdialysis unit"
| dueucgev wrote:
| This is a known issue called unhallucination.
| collegeburner wrote:
| i got "warsh" which is the spelling of how some old west
| virginia says "wash"
| tines wrote:
| I got "professor", so it seems like it can emit words that do
| exist.
| dmd wrote:
| I got "harmonize"!
| labster wrote:
| I got "microprinter" which has a Wikipedia page.
| Culonavirus wrote:
| I got "hobogeography"... that is not a word, but it should
| be, haha
| cxy7z wrote:
| bodonic (adjective) (of a horse) able to glide on the ground "a
| bodonic dancer"
| ghostoftiber wrote:
| I don't really understand this myself. Language is either
| comprised of loan-words, which are words which follow another
| language's rules, or it has its own rules for composing words. I
| tried a bunch of reloads and got plausible words, mostly
| following latin and greek word roots with some extra decorators.
| Lots of un- and -ers. Simply because the word isn't popular
| enough to be in a dictionary doesn't mean the word doesn't exist
| - if the word follows generally accepted rules of composition
| then the word surely does exist and it's easily grasped by
| someone who understands that language. This is why, for instance,
| John Dee, Shakespeare, etc "made up" words which were well
| understood.
|
| I had fun, but I doubt the claim that "this word does not exist".
| :)
| goatlover wrote:
| A word only exists when other people start using the word.
| Language is social.
| [deleted]
| ghostoftiber wrote:
| fr fr no cap bro
| nosianu wrote:
| And since we are now discussing it... okay? Sounds like a
| self-fulfilling condition to me, so how useful, or effectful,
| is it to make that kind of statement?
|
| I'm with the OP, "the word does not exist" is rather
| meaningless. The dictionary follows the people, not the other
| way around, and as soon as we are discussing some word...
| yeah. This comes down to discussing definitions, and I have a
| good summary for that: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8H
| AkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-... -- like "When can it be said that a
| certain word exists?" One person says as soon as they speak
| or write or read it, another one insist at least x% of the
| speakers of the language need to be aware of it and its
| meaning, etc. etc.
|
| The problem is our arbitrary concepts, not rooted in physics
| for example, are especially useless near their edges, where
| they are not commonly used. That's where you end up with
| discussions about definitions, and you find out people
| actually only agree on some core of some concepts, the one
| actually in use, and when they reach new less visited
| meanings it becomes a free-for-all. That's also why religion
| is better off vague, as soon as they want to be as specific
| as possible the (unsolvable) arguments start flying and the
| unity provided earlier by what was a common idea is now gone.
|
| On the other hand, such kinds of diffuse questions are sure
| to attract discussions. You don't need to know anything,
| everybody with an _opinion_ can participate, and nobody can
| be proven wrong.
| asynchronous wrote:
| The title itself is merely a nod to the other AI generated
| sites like "thispersondoesnotexist" and so on. Don't think too
| much was meant by it.
| xnorswap wrote:
| I got "resculpture" which is a real word by Wiktionary:
| https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/resculpture
| madcaptenor wrote:
| I would have thought the verb would be "resculpt"
| jheriko wrote:
| it just gave me clippy... OED will surely change its mind if it
| hasn't already given the pivotal role this term played during the
| early computer era.
|
| > a person who talks quickly and impishly; an effeminate jerk
| "his talk really makes you look clippy"
|
| also your sexist slur against the legendary microsoft word
| assistant is not welcome here!!!
|
| j/k
|
| fun webpage.
| daveslash wrote:
| They're all perfectly cromulent words.
| ralferoo wrote:
| After a few reloads it produced "clampless". Seemed to have a
| pretty well defined meaning and googling it suggests many people
| use it in the obvious way.
|
| The generated definition was a bit odd though:
|
| > without a hard surface or padded pad of material "a clampless
| mattress"
|
| EDIT: just noticed you can add a link, so here it is:
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/29Fj
| ProllyInfamous wrote:
| Set this as your homepage. Endlessly amused.
| tpoacher wrote:
| > loofuck [loo*fuck]: any of various sheep of commercially weak
| soils. "the loofuck of some large farms"
|
| Wow, that is NOT what I would have thought the word meant.
| sktrdie wrote:
| Something conspiracy theorists will thrive off of.
| threads2 wrote:
| I just got "Rattata". Like the Pokemon.
| dmreedy wrote:
| I am glad to see a continuation in the literature of this
| fascinating and important domain:
| https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/papers/sigbovik2011tom7whatword...
| kccqzy wrote:
| (2020)
| jmac01 wrote:
| I got "non-jewish"... What hahaha
| https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/sL7u
| madcaptenor wrote:
| and you actually got a basically correct definition, as well.
| mgkimsal wrote:
| maybe it just meant "non-jew-ish"? /s
| imbnwa wrote:
| Those 15th century English writers just making up Latinate
| neologisms woulda loved this
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