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I'm collecting words, coined or otherwise, that have to do with the excitement of learning, thinking, realizing, and so on.
Intellizest comes to mind.
What are some others?
Best regards,
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philomath and polymath have been mentioned here before.
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howsabout "verbiphage"?
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Dear WW "zest" is an interesting word. I still remember my first encounter with it, in Boswell's life of Johnson, when he offered a piece of "zest" to a dinner guest. It was a piece of orange peel, and my dictionary still gives that as the first meaning.
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"howsabout "verbiphage"?" Dear Stales: I have been compelled to retract words, but never actually compelled to chew and swallow any of my rejected writings.
Maybe a verbiphage is a guy who eats a Chinese fortune cookie whole.
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How about "Eureka!" Of course, it has to have the exclamation mark to give it zest.
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Thirst for knowledge...or hunger for the same...
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Is "Promethean" a close one.
It's not exactly according to the dictionary, but in the few instances where I've seen the word used, it seemed meant to convey originality as a result of some internal mental quest.
Or maybe I'm just imagining things.
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Dear Bill,
About the zest... After having seen several recipes calling for either orange or lemon zest, I started to nibble away at it and found it good to eat. Always, since a curious little girl, I've nibbled away at the inside of the peel, which I think is called something like bagasse--but the taste for zest came in my later years. Read an articles, also years later, stating the nutritional benefits of eating the insides of peels, the bagasse, if I'm correct in this word. Will have to go LIU.
Bagasse regards,
WW
PS: Bagasse is close but wrong. Bagasse is the residue left over from processing fruits--sugar cane, beets, etc. Don't know what the word is for the white skin just inside the organge peel--but it does have a name!
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