Sooey and saints meaning12/23/2023 ![]() Louche - disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way Solipsistic - extremely egocentric ( Solipsism) ![]() Sui generis - constituting a class alone : unique, peculiar (pronounced "sue I generous" or "sooey generous") Posted by Sova at 12:40 PM on June 15, 2009 I'm sure many other words are out there that fit the need. 'Idealization' comes to mind, or 'mythologizing' is possible. Given that we're not describing actualy saints' lives, but simply criticizing the work of others, I don't see why words can't be found that are at least suitable, or even better in the sense of being more precise and less dramatic. It describes an unthinking and blindly glorifying style of biography, and is often (at least mildly) critical of the person who wrote the biography/work described. The word hagiography in English isn't that old, and the meaning attached to it today outside of religious settings is different. (I think there's a complicated 'be like Jesus in his trials' ideal on one side, but a 'you're never going to be as perfect as Jesus' necessity on the other.) Female saints' lives might include examples of their youthful 'vanities' or sexual urges male lives might include greed, pride, and even causing death. Lives/vitas had several roles, the first of which was neither history nor unthinking glorification, but more as tool to educate the masses and mythologize the "perfect" Christian, and often gave examples of their fallibility. Well, the original hagiographies were quite complicated, often involving the flaws and errors of the saint, not just their godliness. So far, no one has offered a good synonym. Sycophancy is a poor substitute since it misrepresents the motivations of the author. Hagiography is often used to describe historical figures and the subjects of biography when they are treated as secular saints, either because the writer truly admires them or because it is useful to his narrative or agenda. Posted by PontifexPrimus at 11:18 AM on June 15, 2009 *Yes, also a region in Germany, which left me as a native speaker of German kind of stumped when I first encountered it. Why only "bonobo" and no other terms for animal or plant species? I'd imagine that reporting on nature that could possible lead to the mention of bonobos would also include other exotic species with equally uncommon, unknown names - why are they conspicuously absent?.Why were people looking it up and not just deriving its meaning from the context? It is hard for me to imagine any sort of lengthy text containing the word but not in a way that made its approximate meaning clear on the first read-through it would be like a text on cattle containing the word "Holstein" but not making clear that Holstein is a breed of cow *.Why were there enough articles about apes to raise the frequency of this word to the list?. ![]() The inclusion of this word in the list makes me wonder several things: It's the name for a species of not-quite-chimpanzees who are particularly noteworthy only for their mating habits and the resulting social structures founded on frequent casual sex. The one word that stands out to me is "bonobo".
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