Words by Bob Grumman

73 words contributed

• nullosopher
  nuhl AH suh fuhr
  n. one believing himself to be a verosopher but too
  incompetent mentally to be that.
  09/10/2009
• Poetry
  n. , a work of poetry making aesthetically significant use of
  visual elements that interact with its textual elements
  09/10/2009
• Textual Visimagery
  noun, a work of visual art making aesthetically significant
  asemic use of textual elements (as opposed to Visual)
  09/10/2009
• phobosophy
  foh BAH suh fee
  n. hatred of verosophy,
  09/10/2009
• verosopher
  vair AH suh fuhr
  n. one who practices versosophy, a serious seeker of
  systematic truth
  09/10/2009
• abberateur
  an agent of large-scale cultural abberation
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• aesthcipient
  (ehsth SIH pe ehnt)
  n. One who experiences or partakes of a work of art: a reader/
  viewer but also a listener at times or some other kind of sensory
  interactor with art.
  Origin: [From "aesthetics" and "recipient."][ rec'd October 22, 1989]
• alphaconceptual
  (aal' fuh kun CEP shoo ul)
  adj. pertaining to that which results in a literary work when the
  spelling of a word or near-word, or a group of words or near-words
  (in letters, but other symbols such as numerals or punctuation
  marks as well), coupled with its verbal meaning, produces a
  metaphor of central importance to the work it is in.
  Origin: [From "alphabetical" and "conceptual."][ rec'd October 22, 1989]
• anthroceptuality
  (aan' thro sep' show AA lih tee)
  n. In Grumman's psychology that awareness, or part of the over-
  all consciousness, which has to do with social sensations. The
  basis of one's ability to empathize with others. [From "anthro"
  ("generic man") and "ceptuality," the latter of which seems to derive
  from the Latin for "withdraw," in the sense of "take from."]
  
  Origin: [rec'd October 22, 1989]
• appreceptuality
  (aap' pruh sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. In Grumman's psychology that awareness, or part of the over-
  all consciousness, which has to do with one's sensation of pain
  and pleasure, or one's "appreciation" thereof. It is the basis of the
  moral awareness.
  
  
  
  Origin: From "appreciate" and "ceptuality." rec'd October 22, 1989
• behavraceptuality
  (bee hayv' ruh sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. In Grumman's psychology that awareness, or part of the over-all
  consciousness, which has to do with one's sensation of being in
  the process of "willing" an action. One's feeling of having a will.
  Origin: [From "behavior" and "ceptuality."] rec'd October 22, 1989
• culturateur
  maker of culturally-significant works of art, science or some other equally major cultural field; always majorignative
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• disconcealment
  dihs' kun SEEL ment
  )n. A visual poetry technique by means of which small words or
  near-words within larger words are knocked into view--e.g., as
  when Karl Kempton puts a space in the middle of "justice" to bring
  "just" and "ice" into view.
  
  Origin: [From "dis-," "conceal" and "-ment."] [rec'd October 22, 1989]
• dislocational
  dis' lo KAY shun ul
  adj. pertaining to poetry which locates a reader in an irrational,
  strange new place.
  
  Origin: [From "dys," meaning "bad," and "locational."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• eulocational
  yoo' lo KAY shun u
  adj. pertaining to poems like Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill" and its
  boyhood where "the spellbound horses walk(ed) warm/ Out of the
  whinnying green stable/ On to the fields of praise," whose aim is to
  construct some ideally beautiful locus out of words, not reproduce
  some ordinary locus, as an ordinary locus.
  Origin: [From "eu", meaning "good" and "locational."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• exnotia
  What aesthetically irrelevant meanings a poem picks up because
  of such matters as who composed it, where it was composed, etc.
  6/9/2009
• experioddica
  ek sper' ih AH dih kuh
  n. Orginally a reference to those kinds of magazines which deal
  with experimental, or odd, art but now taken to mean such art itself.
  
  Origin: [From "experimental," "odd," "exotica," and "periodical."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• foreburden
  FOUR burr din
  what a given literary work is, in the main, explicitly about
  Origin: < fore- + burden
  forever
• fundalocational
  fuhn' duh lo KAY shun ul
  adj.pertaining to the work of poets like William Carlos
  Williams who seem to try to represent ordinary places in the
  world or mind as directly and precisely as possible, as in
  William's "The Red Wheelbarrow."
  Origin: [From "fundamental" and "locational."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• grummanaical
  gruh' man NY ih kul
  adj. pertaining to Bob Grumman
  Origin: [from "Grumman" + "maniacal"][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• hypergorea
  hi' pur GAWR ee uh
  n. Art the primary ingredient of which is violence.
  
  Origin: [From "hyper" and "gore."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• idiocosm
  One's private universe?
  12/14/2007
• illuscriptation
  ihl' luh skrihp TAY shun
  n. That branch of vizlature consisting of works in which verbal
  elements of semantic importance but little or no visual
  expressiveness are combined, but not fused, with visual elements
  whose aesthetic significance is approximately equal to that of the
  verbal elements'.
  
  Origin: [From "illustration," "script," and "-ation."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• infraverbal
  Making aesthetically expressive use of letters, numbers, punctuation marks,
  and other verbal elements smaller than words. (Even isolated, these tiny
  infra-verbal symbols transmit connotative meaning. -Geof Huth)
  
  Origin: [Geof Huth's dbqp: visualizing poetics]
  1/2004
• intelligential
  ihn tel' lih JEN shul
  adj. pertaining to the intelligence as opposed to the intellect, which
  is only a small part of the mind--which in turn is only a small part of
  the intelligence, which includes the entire nervous system.
  
  Origin: [rec'd October 22, 1989]
• knowlecule
  a brain's representation, in my psychology, of a unit of knowledge (e.g., a single word in a poem, when taken at its simplest face-value meaning--as "blue," for instance, would be when considered a generic term for the color blue and not a term for the range of wave-lengths that cause a person to experience blue, and/or for all the words' emotional connotations, and/or for all one's memories of its use in poems, etc.)
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• knowleculink
  a link between two knowlecules; used to transmit energy from one to the other, or vice versa
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• knowleplex
  In my psychology is the brain's record of any closely related system or network of knowlecules—"blue," for example, when it does represent a range of wave-lengths, and/or what "blue" means emotionally to a person, and/or a person's memories of its use in poems, etc.
  
  
  Note: What a particular "brain-record" of a datum or data is depends on the context of the datum or data: for instance, in a discussion of human organs, "brain" would be represented by a knowlecule, probably; in a discussion of the cells in a human body, it would be represented by a knowleplex. This may sound confusing—it does to me as I write this. But I believe a full explanation of my theory would make it all clear. That's for a later blog entry, though.
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• knowlexpanse
  the representation (or recording) in the brain of all the data a vocational field or the like, such as literature requires
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• knownstream
  NON streem
  n., adj. A branch of art (or pertaining to a branch of art) whose
  contents are familiar to the majority of the contemporaries of the
  art's creators; opposed to "otherstream"--as well as to "avant
  garde"--but not necessarily popular; not necessarily mainstream,
  either, as an art can be familiar but comparatively ignored (e.g.,
  science fiction) which would make it knownstream but not
  mainstream.
  Origin: [From "known" and "stream," and based on "mainstream."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• literant
  (LIH tur ent)
  adj. pertaining to purely verbal literature which is written or
  otherwise put into a form which only literate people can decipher;
  antonym: "oral." Distinguished from "written" literature in that the
  latter need not be entirely verbal--can include visual poems, for
  example.
  
  Origin: [From "literary" and "literate."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• loguum
  (lo' gyum)
  n. a vacuum in the language; a not yet named concept or object, or
  a not yet adequately named concept or object--i.e., a place in the
  language which clamors for a neologism. E.g.: visual art.
  Origin: [Rec'd Jan 6, 1987]
• majorignative
  adjective modifying an individual who forms a "neo- knowleplex" which is new to the individual's culture if the knowleplex comes to be highly valued by the individual's society
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• manywhere-at-once
  (meh' nee war aat WUNCE)
  n. The state to which an effective metaphor takes one. A sense of
  being in more than one place in one's mind at once.
  
  Origin: [From "many," "anywhere" and "at once."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• meloconceptuality
  (meh' lo kun sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. pertaining to that which results in a literary work when the
  pronunciation of a word or near-word, or a group of words or near-
  words (in letters, but other symbols such as numerals or
  punctuation marks as well), coupled with its verbal meaning,
  produces a metaphor of central importance to the work it is in.
  
  Origin: [From "melody" and "conceptual."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• melodation
  (meh' lo DA shun)
  n. That which results in poetry from the use of devices concerned
  with the sound of words such as rhyme, meter, alliteration,
  assonance, consonance.
  
  Origin: [From "melody" and "-ation" as the latter is used in such words as "validation" (to render valid).][rec'd Oct 22, 1989]
• meloscriptation
  (meh' lo skrhp TAY shun)
  n. That branch of verbo-musical art consisting of works in which
  verbal elements of semantic importance but little or no visual
  expressiveness are combined, but not fused, with visual elements
  whose aesthetic significance is approximately equal to that of the
  verbal elements'.
  
  Origin: [From "melody," "script," and "-ation."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• metaverbal
  (met' uh VUR bul)
  adj. Visual and Alphaconceptual Poetry taken together (the former
  being partially vislational, the latter entirely textual, but the two
  being related to each other in that each results from some
  manipulation of its letters--is, in other words, subverballys
  produced, or produced at the level of letters rather than at the level
  of words.
  
  Origin: [From "meta," in the sense of "along with," and "verbal."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• micreativity
  (short for "micro-creative"), the creativity that results when a neo-knowleplex is a neo-knowleplex only for the individual it arises in, not for society as a whole.
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• minitextual
  (mih' nih TEK shool)
  adj. pertaining to vislational art which contains asemantic verbal
  elements with no significant metaphoric effect.
  
  Origin: [From "minimal" and "textual."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• minorignative
  adjective modifying an individual who forms a "neo-knowleplex" which is new to the individual's culture if the knowleplex never comes to be highly valued by the individual's society: the gifted amateur interior decorator, or the Sunday painter of talent, for instance, but not most people, who are generally micreative person
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• mnemoduct
  (NEE mo dukt)
  n. A hypothetical component of the brain in Grumman's theory of
  psychology in which memories--or, more exactly, switches able to
  turn on appropriate brain-cells to produce a mental re-enactment
  of something from the past--are stored.
  
  Origin: [From "mnemo," from the Greek for having to do with the memory, and "duct."[rec'd October 22, 1989]
• monoliterant
  (mah' no LIH tur ent)
  adj. pertaining to purely textual literature which is not
  alphaconceptual and is thus literant in only one way.
  
  Origin: [From "mono" and "literant."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• musclaceptuality
  (muhs' kluh sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. In Grumman's psychology that awareness, or part of the over-all
  consciousness, which has to do with one's sensation of the state of
  one's muscles, and the movements they generate. The athletic
  sense. With sensriceptuality and viscraceptuality, a sub-division of
  sensuality.
  
  Origin: [From "muscle" and "ceptuality."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• myssyntactical
  (mihs' sihn TAK tih kul)
  adj. pertaining to syntax which is to orthodox syntax as a
  misspelling is to orthodox spelling--but with a suggestion of a
  missing syntax; also a mysterious or even mystical syntax.
  
  Origin: [From "mis-" and "syntactical."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• neo-knowleculink
  a knowleculink which is new for the individual forming it
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• neo-knowleplex
  the knowleplex formed when a neo-knowleculink is laid down
  
  
  rec'd August 14, 2005
• nullinguist
  NUHL lihn gwihst
  n. one who uses and/or defines a word in such a manner as to
  render the word useless for serious truth-seeking
  09/10/2009
• nullinguistics
  NUHL lihn gwihs tiks
  n., the belief that words should either not be defined, or
  should be defined so badly as to be useless for communication
  09/10/2009
• nullosophy
  nuhl AH suh fee
  n. pseudo-verosophy
  09/10/2009
• otherstream
  (UH thur streem')
  n., adj. A branch of art (or pertaining to a branch of art) whose
  contents are new to the majority of the contemporaries of the art's
  creators; opposed to "knownstream," but not necessarily
  significantly original, for it might consist "merely" of revitalized
  previously by-passed art--thus, not a synonym for "avant garde."
  
  Origin: [From "other" and "stream," and based on "mainstream," which is also an antonym for it.][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• phobosopher
  foh BAH suh fuhr
  n. one who hates versosophy sufficiently to denounce and/or
  attempt to sabotage it.Extremely common among poets.
  
  09/10/2009
• poetixetera
  (po et' ihk SET ur uh)
  n. The field of poetics plus all the incidentals connected with it,
  such as the personalities and biographies of individual poets and
  critics, individual poems and analyzes of them, the relation of a
  given theory of poetics to a theory of esthetics, and so forth.
  
  Origin: [From "poetics" and "et cetera."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• polyceptuality
  (pah' lee sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. The significant use of more than one major awareness (the
  major awarenesses being intellectuality, sensuality,
  anthroceptuality, behavraceptuality, appreceptuality and
  sagaceptuality)--for instance, to be intellectual and sensual at the
  same time. Rare
  Origin: [From "poly" and "ceptuality."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• pornogorea
  (pawr' no GAWR ee uh)
  n. Art which has to do only with sado-masochistic sex.
  Distinguished from "pornography? which is sexual but not
  significantly sado-masochistic.
  
  Origin: [From "porn" and "gore"][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• pure vizlation
  traditional visual art
  
• retroceptuality
  (reh' tro sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. That function of the brain having to do with storing and
  retrieving of "retrocepts," the smallest units of memory; a synonym
  for "memory" but a more precisely specified term that the latter.
  
  Origin: [From "retro-" and "-ceptual," meaning, approximately (from the Latin), to take from the past.][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• sagaceptuality
  (saa' guh sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. In Grumman's psychology that awareness, or part of the over-all
  consciousness, which has to do with one's sense of being part of a
  developing narrative. The source of the common human need to
  compete in games and strive for victory, even mere abstract
  victory. The reason men are such insane fans of football, baseball
  and basketball, men being relatively more stricken, or blessed,
  with sagaceptual needs than women.
  Origin: [From "saga" and "ceptuality."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• scuther
  (SKUH thur)
  v. to disturb a person with too great a complexity of input for him to
  handle; scutherdom, the resulting state, is often mistaken for
  boredom, but the latter results from a person's being superior to
  what is causing the state while the former results from his being
  inferior to it. Counting pass cars on a freeway, for example, will
  tend to cause boredom; doing advanced calculus problems with
  tend to cause scutherdom.
  
  Origin: [From "scuttle," "clutter," "muddle" and similar words.][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• sensriceptuality
  (sens' rih sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. In Grumman's psychology that awareness, or part of the over-all
  consciousness, which has to do with the data coming in through
  the standard five senses, touch, taste, sight, hearing and smell--as
  well as the lesser senses associated with these; a sub-division of
  sensuality.
  
  Origin: [From "sensory" and "ceptuality."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• sliar
  (SLY-ur)
  n. Person who tells lies that, technically speaking, are
  not lies, by such means as quoting out of context or
  otherwise leaving out information that would show a
  statement he has made to be a gross misrepresentation.
  "There is no record from the only grammar school in his
  hometown or any other school of his time that Shakespeare
  ever spent so much as a day in one." Left out: the fact that
  we have no records of attendance from his hometown school
  for years before and after he would have
  gone to it, or from most other schools of his time.
  
  
  Origin: 8/29/2005
  11/13/2005
• textual vizlation
  a form of verbo-visual art in which the visual is fused with but
  predominant over words; it exists in two subcategories(a) textually
  ornamented vizlation, in which the textual elements are as visual
  images only decorative; and (b) textually enlarged vization, in
  which the textual elements are visually as well as semantically
  significant.
  
• verosophy
  vair AH suh fee
  n. serious, systematic truth-seeking--in particular, science,
  history, philosophy, art criticism.
  09/10/2009
• viscraceptuality
  (vihs' ruh sep' shoo AA lih tee)
  n. In Grumman's psychology that awareness, or part of the over-all
  consciousness, which has to do with one's sensation of the state of
  one's viscera (e.g., blood, stomach, genitals): a subdivision of
  sensuality which includes one's awareness of hunger, sexual
  desire, illness, and so forth.
  
  Origin: [From "viscera" and "ceptuality."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• Visimagistic
  vihz ih muh Jihs tihk
  adjective, relating to visimagery
  [8:46:32 P
• Visimagistic
  vihz ih muh Jihs tihk
  adjective, relating to visimagery
  09/10/2009
• visual literature
  a form of verbo- visual art in which words are fused with but
  predominant over the visual; it contains two subcategories (a)
  visually enlarged literature, in which the visual elements are
  semantically as well as visually significant, and (b) visually
  ornamented literature, in which the visual elements are as
  semantic matter only decorative
  
  
• Vizimagery
  vihz IH mudj re
  n. visual art (e.g., a painting, sculpture, photograph primarily intended to give
  others aesthetic pleasure)
  2009
• Vizimagist
  vihz IH mudj ihst
  n. , one who makes visimages.
  09/10/2009
• vizlation
  (vihz LAY shun)
  n. That art which is concerned primarily with visual images; one of
  the three major arts, the other two being literature and music [a
  condensation of "visualization" and intended to suggest
  "translation" and "relation" (as in the relation of a story)]
  
  Origin: [rec'd October 22, 1989]
• vizlator
  (viz' la tor)
  n. visual artist
  
  Origin: [rec'd Jan 6, 1987]
• vizlature
  (VIHZ luh chuhr)
  n. The art in which the verbal and the visual are combined; verbo-
  visual art.
  
  Origin: [From "vizlation" and "literature."][rec'd October 22, 1989]
• Wilshberia
  The range of American Poetry from Wilbur to Ashbery, which academics take to be the entire range of American Poetry.  Many boast of liking poems from all parts of it, expecting to be congratulated on their breadth of appreciativeness.
   
  
  July 4, 2005

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