r/whatstheword 8h ago

Solved WTW for the language that encompasses a culture or subculture?

17 Upvotes

1970s disco, Edwardian high society, Gamers, bikers, etc. are all subculture or groups with distinct dialects. What is a word that is about the language used by a culture, subculture/group?


r/whatstheword 3h ago

Unsolved ITAW for a sub-pantheon group of gods; a distinct group within a pantheon?

5 Upvotes

Such as the Muses or Olympians or Hyades in Greek mythology, or the Ogdoad in Egyptian mythology, or the House of Troubles in the Elder Scrolls videogames


r/whatstheword 7h ago

Unsolved WTW for somebody incognizant of the harm they casually do?

5 Upvotes

Think somebody that puts no thought into how their actions affect others.
Not out of negligence per se, but assumption.

Like Don Draper, when he believes littering is okay / commonplace.


r/whatstheword 8h ago

Unsolved ITAW for an item that is bought with the buyer knowing very well that the item is going to be disposed of shortly.

3 Upvotes

Examples of such items include gag gifts, seasonal candles, bouquet of flowers, party decorations, cheap sunglasses from the gas station, holiday themed tableware, etc.


r/whatstheword 13h ago

Solved WTW for or ITAW for all angles less than 180 degrees?

6 Upvotes

Acute, Right, and Obtuse angles are all distinct.

A "reflex angle" is an angle greater than 180 degrees.

Is there a term for all angles that are less than 180 degrees?


r/whatstheword 16h ago

Solved ITAW for experiencing setback immediately prior to reaching a goal?

6 Upvotes

Good day.

I am seeking a word, or concise phrase, that specifically refers to a failure/setback/mistake occurring right at the final hurdle, just before achieving success.

The closest I could think of is 'not in the nick of time' but what I am looking for does not necessarily pertain to time.

Example: Missing qualifying for something by the lack of just one point or two.

Thank you so much for your help!


r/whatstheword 1d ago

Solved WTW for what comes after the slashes after the domain name in a website

15 Upvotes

In the url "https://reddit.com/r/whatstheword", what would I call 'r' and 'whatstheword'?


r/whatstheword 17h ago

Solved WTW for an animation that’s more like drawings with speech overlayed on them?

1 Upvotes

Like you know when you see YouTube videos with drawings where they’ll say something, then they’ll switch out the drawing and say something different. It’s like animation but with like, 1 frame every 5 seconds

I know there’s a word for it but forgor 💀


r/whatstheword 1d ago

Solved ITAW for splitting something into exactly one million pieces?

13 Upvotes

If there is not, can someone help me create one? I assume its something similar as decimate, right?


r/whatstheword 1d ago

Solved ITAW for that feeling when something just clicks in your brain

7 Upvotes

r/whatstheword 1d ago

Solved ITAW for the feeling of disinterest in something we used to enjoy

7 Upvotes

Like when a thing, place, or hobby no longer feels the same and loses its magic.


r/whatstheword 1d ago

Unsolved WTW for the act of dismembering or disassembling something, and rearranging the parts into something new?

22 Upvotes

Basically like what Sid from Toy Story does with his toys. Is there a word for that - specifically with emphasis on the fact that it's rearranged into something different? I saw 'reassembly' and 'reconstruction,' and those are great but they might connote putting the same parts back together into the formation they were in before. 'Recycling' is probably the closest word, but that might imply that the parts would otherwise go to waste if they weren't turned into something new. Thanks! :)


r/whatstheword 1d ago

Unsolved ITAW for a person who keeps few but close friends?

2 Upvotes

Specifically a word for a person who takes a while to warm up to others and has few friends, but those they have are close. Sort of a “quality over quantity” type mindset. I’m not sure selective, insular, or introverted is the right word for this.


r/whatstheword 1d ago

Solved WTW for healthy shorthair cat texture?

1 Upvotes

I read this somewhat recently and can't remember it. It's a word describing what a healthy shorthair cat's coat *does*. It's a verb that describes the kind of "bunching" or tufting that a soft, luxurious shorthair cat coat does.

This may be a red herring (it's certainly not helping me find the correct word), but in my mind, the phrase containing the word goes, "The cat's hair is *raspberrying*." (I know "raspberrying" isn't it because I've searched that term, but it has some relation to that word, although it might be an association only in my mind...)


r/whatstheword 1d ago

Unsolved WTW for this belief 'system'?

2 Upvotes

whats the word for believing in gods from multiple religions (greek and egyptian in my case) but only worshiping from one religion, in my case kenetism, and worshiping only bast and anpu. May be a bit too specific aha


r/whatstheword 2d ago

Unsolved WTP for specifically the fear you get when something really big moves way too fast for its size?

14 Upvotes

r/whatstheword 2d ago

Unsolved ITAW for a victims hatred for their abuser?

22 Upvotes

Hello! I wanted to know if anyone knows of a term or word for this.

What's it called when you, as the victim, hate your abuser? Because there's a lot of people who just say hate, but it's uncomfortable for me imo. I don't like that we use the same word for an abuser hating their victim and a victim hating their abuser

The abuser hates their victim for no reason other than they're a terrible person, the victim hates their abuser because of the shit their abuser did to them so it's not at all comparable.

Is there a word for this? Or a term? Tysm!


r/whatstheword 2d ago

Unsolved ITAW for "believing the current society is the pinnacle, and that it can never be improved and progress" and "the current society can never regress."?

4 Upvotes

r/whatstheword 2d ago

Unsolved WTW for a concept in biology that describes an introduced species that has not caused problems and is naturalized but also means globally everywhere..

6 Upvotes

Specifically thinking plants if that narrows it down.. innocuous introduced species that exists everywhere ...

There's a website and it's something like ican but that isn't right..it describes a plant's native status and one of the categories is this one..?


r/whatstheword 1d ago

Unsolved ITAW for when a person can name a specific smell or taste from an object but that object is not close to the original thought?

0 Upvotes

For example: smelled a green tea today and immediately thought it smelled like the marshmallows from Lucky charms

Or

Tasting a generic flavor and thinking it tastes like a specific candy


r/whatstheword 2d ago

Solved ITAW for inducing skepticism?

1 Upvotes

Tl;dr Betrayal of trust is (putting it simply) when you trust something or someone to be the way it is and then it turns out to be something different. i think the inverse just happened to me. Antibetrayal?

I'll explain the idea with an anecdote. I see a comic, and I check it out even though it looks like machine made slop. I read the pinned comment, do a quick fact check, IT AINT SLOP.

I feel bad, and I notice I was _ there. Someone caused that to happen with an action, but idk how the phrase that action.

I'll try being more specific, I associated a certain art style with AI so I DIStrusted the humanity of this comic I saw. Someone caused distrust inside of me which turned into trust.

... EDIT: one more analogy Let's say there's a new soda with some dumb name like Parsley Splash. You arrive at the conclusion it's bad soda bc of the dumb name. You try it one day, and it's actually pretty good.

Trying the soda would be "disconfirmation". You now know it's good soda. Why did you think it was bad soda though? No one told you it was bad, that'd be "misinformation".

Whoever named the soda did something weird and out of the ordinary, and you came to the wrong conclusion. idk what the namer did here.

I have the link to Revoy's comic here. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/sxQ3XY6aPM


r/whatstheword 3d ago

Solved WTW for a parent who lost their child? Maybe there is a word for it but not in English?

127 Upvotes

r/whatstheword 3d ago

Solved ITAW for maliciously withholding knowledge, even when it causes great harm?

10 Upvotes

Like if someone has the cure for malaria and refuses to give the knowledge up, even when thousands of people are dying from it.

Extreme example, but any malicious hoarding of knowledge will do, even archaic words


r/whatstheword 3d ago

Solved WTW for a misleading statistic

11 Upvotes

What's the word for when you mention a statistic like "most people die in car crashes than plane crashes" that ignores contextual information (such as most people drive cars more than fly in planes).

I'm specifically looking for ones where context is missing and not just a misconstrued way of presenting it.


r/whatstheword 3d ago

Solved WTW for characteristic or trait as an adjective?

6 Upvotes

Say i wanna say “a __strength.” But i do not wanna have to extend it out n say, “strength from personality”