Interesting definitions

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lesterb
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Do you like words? Here is a place to share interesting words and their definitions.

tsundoku

Buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread on shelves or floors or nightstands.
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dysania

The state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
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Borborygmus

a rumbling or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and gas in the intestines.
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ergodic
relating to or denoting systems or processes with the property that, given sufficient time, they include or impinge on all points in a given space and can be represented statistically by a reasonably large selection of points.
just read it used here:
https://ergodicity.net/2013/06/14/open- ... e-library/
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