Apodyopsis - here's a handy word

[ElectricBlue]

Apodyopsis is the act of mentally undressing someone, or imagining them without clothes. It's a rare term, apparently, not found in most modern dictionaries, that is constructed from the Ancient Greek words apodúō ("to undress") and ópsis ("sight").

I might use it to name my next café.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I feel like the folks in the Poetry board would have a field of day with this word.

Going to write it down...

E: Apparently the word is legitimate in Spanish provided that it is written as "Apodiopsis" according to the Royal Spanish Academy on Xitter. I think I have a prompt to do some poetry now.

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[Bamagan]

I wonder if apodykinesis would be understood the way telekinesis or pyrokinesis usually are... using mental powers to actually undress someone, in this case.

 

[SmilingLez]

Can't help myself - challenge accepted

Apodyopsis -
my mind tears off your clothes;
bare flesh, dewy and hot.

 

[iwatchus]

I had to see more of this for myself, so I searched for the term. I found two dictionaries defining it, one of which I assume is where you got your definition. The other surprised me, being a "christian" website. They had a very different definition and an unrelated ancient greek derivation:

Apodyopsis is a rhetorical device that involves the intentional omission or suppression of a concluding statement, leaving the audience to infer or imagine the conclusion for themselves.

Given that no one I consider authoritative defines it, I have no idea which definition is accepted.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

My apodyopsis is often triggered by my crytoscopophilia.

 

[TheLobster]

I had to see more of this for myself, so I searched for the term. I found two dictionaries defining it, one of which I assume is where you got your definition. The other surprised me, being a "christian" website. They had a very different definition and an unrelated ancient greek derivation:

Apodyopsis is a rhetorical device that involves the intentional omission or suppression of a concluding statement, leaving the audience to infer or imagine the conclusion for themselves.

Given that no one I consider authoritative defines it, I have no idea which definition is accepted.

Google agrees that it is about mentally undressing, but provides a slightly different etymology:

apo- (away) + dynein (to undress) + -opsis (seeing).

However, it does source Wiktionary in its answer, which says the same thing as OP, so it's probably another LLM hallucination.

 

[NuclearFairy]

After much googling it seems to have its origins in urban dictionary. I wonder how long it'll take for it to start showing up in other dictionaries.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I had to see more of this for myself, so I searched for the term. I found two dictionaries defining it, one of which I assume is where you got your definition. The other surprised me, being a "christian" website. They had a very different definition and an unrelated ancient greek derivation:

Apodyopsis is a rhetorical device that involves the intentional omission or suppression of a concluding statement, leaving the audience to infer or imagine the conclusion for themselves.

Given that no one I consider authoritative defines it, I have no idea which definition is accepted.

Wait, that definition is correct in the sense that there's a word for that, though I can't recall what that word is, but I know that I've learned it somewhere... Possibly at university. I remember all the Greek words I've learned in my philosophy classes; my professor was a really eccentric man, and apodyopsis was not one of those words.

It sounds more like sophism than anything, but a sophism is broader than that.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Best source I can find if someone is looking for one: Lecher's Lexicon: An A-Z Encyclopedia of Erotic Expressions and Naughty Bits

You can borrow it on Internet Archive if you're interested. Check the appendix, that's where it's found, not the main text. According to a few AI models I consulted, that's the earliest published mention of it they could find.

And btw, that book - woah is that full of great words for Lit Authors!

Edited to add what @Britva415 pointed out below: Wiktionary cites this source as well.

 

[Britva415]

it does source Wiktionary in its answer

Wiktionary isn’t unsourced, itself, though.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Wiktionary isn’t unsourced, itself, though.

You know? I'd have done well to click the Wiktionary entry before posting what I did. It totally sources what I referenced and I should have included that if I had just checked there instead of being like "oh, yea, want something more than a Wiki" - That's shame on me.

 

[AG31]

Apodyopsis is the act of mentally undressing someone, or imagining them without clothes. It's a rare term, apparently, not found in most modern dictionaries, that is constructed from the Ancient Greek words apodúō ("to undress") and ópsis ("sight").

I might use it to name my next café.

Well, this is a new level in the "too clinical" discussion! Will the first person to use it in a story alert us here???

 

[AG31]

My apodyopsis is often triggered by my crytoscopophilia.

Oh, come on! Enough with sending us to dictionaries.

 

[yowser]

Good one. The OED doesn't even have it listed.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Oh, come on! Enough with sending us to dictionaries.

But some of us are lexophiles, while others of us are logophiles.

 

[iwatchus]

But some of us are lexophiles, while others of us are logophiles.

Can't some of us go both ways?

 

[NuclearFairy]

Can't some of us go both ways?

They're overlapping loves, so sure.

 

[Pabiporffor]

I'm using that next time I pull a sickie at work.

 

[MrPixel]

logophiles

I could've sworn that was a lover of contrived corporate trade artwork.

Apodyopsis

Isn't that that sour milk that's supposed to have some sort of digestive benefit?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Apodyopsis is the act of mentally undressing someone, or imagining them without clothes. It's a rare term, apparently, not found in most modern dictionaries, that is constructed from the Ancient Greek words apodúō ("to undress") and ópsis ("sight").

I might use it to name my next café.

Nice word