adhocumentation (2012-05-30; xitter)
adult supremacy (2021-03-28): self-explanatory
banalogy (2025-02-21)
briconteur (n.d.): a raconteur who relies on bricolage
brogrom (2019-07-14): a pogrom by bros, as in: “ICE’s anti-‘immigrant’ brogroms are the next step in the Trump administration’s embrace of white supremacy.”
crowdwash (2011-01-06): a process by which a signal gets lost in mass “user-generated” noise (cf. Andrew Orlowski’s “googlewash”)
cut-and-patriotism (n.d., xitter)
emdashical (2024-08-31): parenthetical for the 21st C
fanticipation (2024-04-04; 6k prior attestations, but that’s pretty good for such an obvious term)
freudenschadist (n.d.): someone who systematically takes misery in others’ pleasures
koyaanisqatsification (2024-08-27): widespread adoption / imposition of a Koyaanisqaatsi aesthetic, i.e., jumbled-together sped-up time-lapse
Magical Nhilism (n.d.): like Magical Realism but nihilistic
mass nihilization (2024-03-08) the process by which growing numbers of people accept or even embrace nihilism, with the strong implication that it was done to them
myhrvoldemort (2011-08-13): no idea, just like it
neologian (n.d.): a neologist who takes new words too seriously
nihilization (n.d.): the reduction of everything to nothing
occam’s chainsaw (2023-10-24): like occam’s razor but for heavier jobs. Variation: occam’s guillotine (2021-04-02?)
oligarchocene (2025-08-08): like anthropocene but correctly identiifies the problem as corrupt wealthy people rather than humans or “capital”
penultiworst (2022-12-20; xitter): next-to-worst
permadjunct (2014-03-24 on Xitter): perpetual adjunct position, formed by analogy to permatemp
postmature antifascist (2020-07-22): Arendtsplainers and other pedantic finger-waggers who argued that Trump wasn’t “really” a fascist (see, e.g., Jonathan Rauch). W. Sydney Robinson used the phrase just weeks later in a book review.
postor syndrome (2025-12-23)
preact (n.d.): to react before something has happened
progwashing (2024-09-02):
radical fleek (2025-08-07): when “radical chic” feels too nostalgic
reality government show (n.d.; xitter)
retreat capital (“RC”; 2010-04-23): when venture capital flees
retronaissance (2023-07-14): do as you will with it
ritual nazi-punching (2025-02-23): formed by analogy to ritual hippy-punching, but with NO known prior attestations!
“the road to hell is paved with high road” (2024-01-24) — not strictly a neologism but useful
shocktrope (n.d.): do as you will with it
shocktwerps (2025-02-02): DOGE employees
speed-run dialectics (2025-12-19)
splainable moment (n.d.,; xitter)
stand-up tragedian (2025-03-14)
statsplain (2017-09-02): splaining with statistics, usually by people who are unwilling to plainly state they believe that statistics offers the preeminent form of analysis
“there’s no then then” (n.d.); formed by analogy to “there’s no there there’
trollwellian (n.d.): do as you will with it
two-point-oh-somethings (2010-11-13; twitter)
tzsch (n.d.): UNIX shell for Nietzscheans
undecided edgelords (2024): fuck them
ur-splain (n.d.; xitter)
vizwashing (n.d.; xitter)
wonquel (n): a prequel that tells an origin story only hardcore nerds would have ever wondered about. Example: “Bartleby the Scrawler, a lighthearted wonquel, recounts how the young man learned to write.”
wordlview (2024-11-13): an understanding of the world based on plaing word gamed provided by hegemonic news sources
yolocracy (n.d., xitter)
zeitvibe (2024–08-11): low-key zeitgeist