Monday, April 13, 2009

My Favorite words, as I acknowledge their meaning

These are some of the most powerful words in English Language. I love them. They may have multiple meanings and they do. I am including their meanings, the way I like to and would use these words. I have added stuff to the meaning, by the way, where required. otherwise, the source is dictionary.com

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Conviction: A fixed or firm belief

Determination: the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose

Will: the faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions. The power of choosing one's own actions; the act or process of using or asserting one's choice; volition

Perseverance: steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement

Tenacity: with the original meaning of adhesiveness, as of glue, is a dogged and determined holding on. Whether used literally or figuratively it has favorable implications: a bulldog quality of tenacity; the tenacity of one's memory

Belief: confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof

Selfishness: The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness. A selfish person follows his own happiness and expects others to follow their own. He does not decide for others. He does not interfere in others' lives. He lives his own. We are all born to be selfish. But somewhere, we are maimed by idiots by think that we are not entitled to live our lives and do what they think is right for us

Power: ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something

Talent: a special ability or aptitude

Aptitude: capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent

Attitude: A state of mind or a feeling; disposition; a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

Dream: an aspiration; goal; aim, a fire that does not let you sleep

Fantasy: imagination, esp. when extravagant and unrestrained; an imagined or conjured up sequence fulfilling a psychological need; daydream; The creative imagination; unrestrained fancy

Beauty: the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest)

Pleasure: enjoyment or satisfaction derived from what is to one's liking; gratification; delight.

Synonyms:

happiness, gladness, delectation. Pleasure, enjoyment, delight, joy refer to the feeling of being pleased and happy. Pleasure is the general term: to take pleasure in beautiful scenery. Enjoyment is a quiet sense of well-being and pleasurable satisfaction: enjoyment at sitting in the shade on a warm day. Delight is a high degree of pleasure, usually leading to active expression of it: delight at receiving a hoped-for letter. Joy is a feeling of delight so deep and so lasting that one radiates happiness and expresses it spontaneously: joy at unexpected good news. 5. voluptuousness. preference, wish, inclination, predilection WOW

Orgasm: most intense pleasure.
life should ideally be an orgasm. One after another. Work should be orgasmic. Pleasurable. Exciting. Something that brings intense sensation to the body and mind. The people we meet. The places we visit. The things we do. Everything about life, every moment, like an orgasm.

Fun: something that provides mirth or amusement; a source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure. You see, what I mean.

Ecstasy: rapturous delight; delight, bliss, elation. Ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation share a sense of being taken or moved out of one's self or one's normal state, and entering a state of intensified or heightened feeling. Ecstasy suggests an intensification of emotion so powerful as to produce a trancelike dissociation from all but the single overpowering feeling. Rapture shares the power of ecstasy but most often refers to an elevated sensation of bliss or delight, either carnal or spiritual like the rapture of first love

Love: a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. now, that person could be any one. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness; To like or desire enthusiastically: loves swimming

Hope: the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best

Enjoy: to experience with joy; take pleasure in

Rock (verb, rock you!): to be moved or swayed powerfully

Dignity: The quality or state of being worthy of esteem or respect

Purpose: The object toward which one strives or for which something exists; "And ever those, who would enjoyment gain/Must find it in the purpose they pursue" (Sarah Josepha Hale)

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