BradGad Posted February 1, 2023 Posted February 1, 2023 What's the word for that feeling -- like the intimatation of a panic attack coming on -- you get when you're thumbing through your deck, looking for a card, and keep not finding it, and are starting to freak out: "Did I lose it? Is my deck incomplete? Where is it?!" We need a word for that. (Surely this isn’t just me. Go ahead and call me Shirly if it helps.)
s8nicangel Posted February 18, 2023 Posted February 18, 2023 I know what you're talking about! I like to pull out all my face cards (king, queen, page, knight, I don't know what the "proper" term is) and sometimes I'll pull all of them out but one. Oh man, that's such a fright, like they ran away or something!
fire cat pickles Posted February 18, 2023 Posted February 18, 2023 On 1/31/2023 at 8:31 PM, BradGad said: intimatation How about this one, since it appears you have made it up.
Grandma Posted February 19, 2023 Posted February 19, 2023 3 hours ago, fire cat pickles said: How about this one, since it appears you have made it up Oh snap!
BradGad Posted March 9, 2023 Author Posted March 9, 2023 OK... but I'm talking about that moment before the freak out... when you've gone through the deck twice, and are starting the third run through, thinking "C'mon, c'mon... it's gotta be here. Too early to panic."
Grandma Posted March 9, 2023 Posted March 9, 2023 There is no single word for this phenomenon. DSM V-TR includes it in the class of panic disorders. It is called Type 1 Divination Related Transient Incipient Premature Hysterical Reaction, Numerological. There is at present no abbreviation, although some researchers have nicknamed it Shirley Syndrome.
BradGad Posted March 9, 2023 Author Posted March 9, 2023 @akiva ... technically you are correct. However, @Grandma has better grokked the essence. I have experienced both consternation and trepidation in my life... Consternation is a good fit; trepidation not so much. But "consternation" is so general... can apply to anything (well, anything negative and disquieting... not puppies of course... ). I'm looking for a word with piquant specificity, le mot juste. Oh if only we were Germans! We could cobble together just the thing. Any Germans in the house?
Grandma Posted March 9, 2023 Posted March 9, 2023 > But "consternation" is so general... can apply to anything (well, anything negative and disquieting... not puppies of course... ). Unless one does not like puppies. > Oh if only we were Germans! We could cobble together just the thing. Any Germans in the house? Oh where is Sigmund Freud when we need him? This reminds me, or to be precise I remind myself, of a completely off topic story. When my now 32 year old granddaughter was ten years old she advised me that I would probably never get married again because I was too viney. Questioning revealed that she meant veiny. She told me that men are very fussy about how their wives look and that I should consider marrying a woman because women are more understanding. I told her that while her theory had merit, women were not allowed by law to marry women, nor men to marry men. Her seven year old brother dramatically exclaimed "where is Martin Luther King when we need him?".
BradGad Posted March 9, 2023 Author Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) LOL! I do not use that over-used internet thingy lightly! Haven't used it for years. But literally, I laughed out loud. That seven-year-old brother.. sounds like quite a guy. If we find a word, we can nail it to doors. Not for any good reason... don't see how it would apply... but just for fun. Why not. Edited March 9, 2023 by BradGad
akiva Posted March 9, 2023 Posted March 9, 2023 My next two were going to be disquietued and perturbation, but you're right that grandma got the essence of it better! Maybe we need to find some Greek or Latin words and smoosh them together like they used to. That's how words used to be made, right?
gregory Posted March 9, 2023 Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) Propanikoyu (You wanted Greek....!) Latin then ? Preterrore Edited March 9, 2023 by gregory
Jewel Posted March 9, 2023 Posted March 9, 2023 15 hours ago, BradGad said: OK... but I'm talking about that moment before the freak out... when you've gone through the deck twice, and are starting the third run through, thinking "C'mon, c'mon... it's gotta be here. Too early to panic." By that time I am freaking out 😜
akiva Posted March 9, 2023 Posted March 9, 2023 58 minutes ago, gregory said: Propanikoyu (You wanted Greek....!) Latin then ? Preterrore I can't find a translation for propanikoyu The latin is good, all I could come up with was: timeo adventum (fear coming)
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