I love fucking with words. Apparently, the polyamorous community, besides fucking around with other people, also likes to fuck with words. If Wikipedia is to be believed, the polys have come up with two new words that I hadn't heard until last Saturday night: "Compersion" and "Frubble."
Wikipedia defines "compersion" as a state of empathetic happiness and joy experienced when an individual's current or former romantic partner experiences happiness and joy through an outside source, including, but not limited to, another romantic interest. Or the more simplistic definition, the opposite of jealousy.
"Frubble" or "frubbly" is defined as feeling compersion. Of course both jealous and compersion can be experienced in simultaneity.
Fucking Rubble?
Fruity Pebbles?
So today marks the birth of a new word in the poly community, a word to describe an emotion that is felt by almost all men, and I suspect many, if not all women: Tertaliation.
Tertaliation: (noun): [tur-sh-ey-le-ashun]
tertaliate (verb) tertalious (adjective) tertaliously (adverb)
(1) The arousal derived from your intimate partner being desired by another.
Origin: From the Latin for third 'tert' and for other 'alli' thus the source of the word 'third other' is also the source of the emotional response.
Now somebody go write me a Wikipedia article.
Wikipedia defines "compersion" as a state of empathetic happiness and joy experienced when an individual's current or former romantic partner experiences happiness and joy through an outside source, including, but not limited to, another romantic interest. Or the more simplistic definition, the opposite of jealousy.
"Frubble" or "frubbly" is defined as feeling compersion. Of course both jealous and compersion can be experienced in simultaneity.
So, I was wondering what two words the polys fucked together to make up "compersion."
'Compulsive' and 'Immersion' fucked into 'Compersion'?
'Compete' and 'Dispersion'?
'Compare' and 'Confusion'?
'Compute' and 'Collusion'?
They need to be more clear on the etymological source of the word.
'Frubble is even more confusing --
Fucking Trouble?Fucking Rubble?
Fruity Pebbles?
So today marks the birth of a new word in the poly community, a word to describe an emotion that is felt by almost all men, and I suspect many, if not all women: Tertaliation.
Tertaliation: (noun): [tur-sh-ey-le-ashun]
tertaliate (verb) tertalious (adjective) tertaliously (adverb)
(1) The arousal derived from your intimate partner being desired by another.
Origin: From the Latin for third 'tert' and for other 'alli' thus the source of the word 'third other' is also the source of the emotional response.
Now somebody go write me a Wikipedia article.

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