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Apr 1, 2016
This week’s themeThere’s a word for it This week’s words clarigation apricity punalua constative entoptic 
Floaters
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PRONUNCIATION:
(en-TOP-tik)
MEANING:
adjective: Relating to images that originate within the eye (as opposed to images
resulting from the light entering the eye). Example: floaters, thread-like fragments that appear to float in front of the eye but are caused by the matter within the eye. ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek ento- (within) + optic (relating to the eye or sight). Earliest
documented use: 1876.
USAGE:
“The people whom we loved seem to float across our hearts (like those
entoptic specks that drift across our eyeballs).” Mark Leyner; My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Vintage; 1990. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried
from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy:
animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a
debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. -Milan Kundera,
novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1 Apr 1929)
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