What's Shakin' in Shandaken?
What's shaken' in Shandaken
makes sense
"Treat me good, I'll treat you better.Treat me bad, I'll treat you worse."
Sonny Barger
DELUSION
de·lu·sion
Pronunciation: \di-ˈlü-zhən, dē-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin delusion-, delusio, from deludere
Date: 15th century
1 : the act of deluding : the state of being deluded
2: a: false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that employment was at hand.
b : a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also : the abnormal state marked by such beliefs
c: Psychiatry; A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of credibility .
Rumor
rumor
Function: verb
Meaning: to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy <for years people have been rumoring the who is the nasty blogger>
Synonyms bruit (about), circulate, noise (about), whisper
Related Words
bandy (about), blab, gossip; disclose, divulge, report, reveal, tell;
hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, let on, suggest; broadcast,
promulgate, propagate, spread
Obsession
n.
v.1. Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
2. A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.
1. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will; "it's compulsion to blog about her"
2. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
obsession [əbˈsɛʃən]
n
1. (Psychiatry) Psychiatrya persistent idea or impulse that continually forces its way into consciousness, often associated with anxiety and mental illness
2. a persistent preoccupation, idea, or feeling
3. the act of obsessing or the state of being obsessed
obsessional adj
obsessionally adv
Inconsequential
inconsequential
Function: adjective
Meaning: 1 lacking importance <thatʼs an inconsequential problem compared to the other issues> — see unimportant 2 so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention <an inconsequential action that does nothing to lessen the value of my life
