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In a communication to some church folk, I used the word "hecticity" to describe the state in which too many people find themselves as the Feast of the Nativity approaches. What ought to be a calm and measured and reflective time (the essence of Advent) turns out to be frenetic and exhausting ... a time of hecticity. As so often happens, one recipient challenged the use of this term, going so far as to suggest that it is "not a word." Your sense?
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http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_hecticity.htmI rather like hecticacious; but then I would, wouldn't I?! (the noun form would be hecticaciousness, I suppose.)
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Thanks for the link. I wouldn't pronounce it that way.
Hecticacious is nice, too.
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no, it should be pronounced /hec TIS ity/.
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it should be pronounced /hec TIS ity/.
On this important, nay, earthshaking matter, tsuwm and I are in perfect accord.
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In reply to:
it should be pronounced /hec TIS ity/.
On this important, nay, earthshaking matter, tsuwm and I are in perfect accord.
D'accord! How else would one say it?
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earthshaking
ain't you talking tecticity there?
good word, Padre. happy holidays!
formerly known as etaoin...
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The Langmaker website has it HECK-tis-ity.
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>The Langmaker website has it HECK-tis-ity.
Well, I say to "niflheim with that!"
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The Feast of the Nativity (the essence of Advent) Sorry Padre, I know the guy who decides what is a word and he said that "hecticity" is not a word. But then he said, "What the heck, it's Christmas, don't sweat the small stuff, but you might ask the Good Reverend why does he not put a "the" in the front of "Advent"? But I told him it was none of my business. 
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