On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: " woman" versus " man" and " boy" versus " girl". The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns. Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books! While playing around with word vectors and the " HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Those two conditions are considered pretty obnoxious, I'd say, and are never used with positive connotations.Ī little bit of imagination will take you a long way in the world of neologisms.The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). That leaves only hyper-gregarious, which is used in a medical book to describe one clinical symptom seen in some alcoholics.Īnother possibility is to coin words like sociorrhea, sociorrheic, gregariorrhea, and gregariorrheic, using diarrhea and logorrhea as models, by adding the suffix -rrhea. WSers are cognitively impaired on most dimensions, but their verbal abilities are spared or even exaggerated they often speak early, with complex sentences and large vocabulary, and excellent verbal recall, even if they can never learn to do basic arithmetic." (#)"People with Williams Syndrome (caused by deletion of a certain region on chromosome 7) are hypersocial, ultra-gregarious as children they fail to show a normal fear of adult strangers. (#) Hypersocial and ultra-gregarious are associated with a neurological problem called Williams Syndrome# (#: see next paragraph), so using those terms is probably politically incorrect because it implies that the person they're used to describe is "crazy". The problem with ultrasocial, however, is that Jonathan Heidt and others have approbatorily appropriated the term to describe human and animal (" social insects and colonial invertebrates") societies, because most people are social, not asocial or antisocial. singular feminine of (assumed) ulter situated beyond (more at ULTERIOR)ģ : beyond what is common, ordinary, natural, right, proper, or moderate : excessively : exceedingly : HYPER- ultracomplex, ultracritical, ultraformal, ultramodern]
[M-W 3rd Unabridged says: "Main Entry: ultra-Įtymology: Latin, from ultra beyond (adverb & preposition), from abl. To turn that into a pejorative, you can prefix hyper- or ultra. Being asocial (lacking a strong motivation to engage in social interaction or preferring solitary activities) is not the same as being antisocial (active dislike or antagonism toward other people or the general social order). I was just editing a paper on schizophrenia and noticed that one of the symptoms of the disease is called asociality.
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