Concepts I have gathered
For years I have noted down rare and strange concepts as I read. Each term links to Wikipedia, and you can explore them one at a time in dérive.
Acoustics
Animal behavior
Anthropology
- Allocentrism (opens in a new tab)
- Archaeoastronomy (opens in a new tab)
- Archeometry (opens in a new tab)
- Centre de recherche sur l'imaginaire (opens in a new tab)
- Chronemics (opens in a new tab)
- Cynegetics (opens in a new tab)
- Denpa (opens in a new tab)
- Dhow (opens in a new tab)
- Enjo kōsai (opens in a new tab)
- Euergetism (opens in a new tab)
- Gorpcore (opens in a new tab)
- Heroin chic (opens in a new tab)
- Jenkem (opens in a new tab)
- Marronnage (opens in a new tab)
- Mesology (opens in a new tab)
- Paideia (opens in a new tab)
- Parochialism (opens in a new tab)
- Proxemics (opens in a new tab)
- Qigong fever (opens in a new tab)
- Schismogenesis (opens in a new tab)
- Sinosphere (opens in a new tab)
- Supercouple (opens in a new tab)
- Troglodyte (opens in a new tab)
- Vexillology (opens in a new tab)
- Wandervogel (opens in a new tab)
- Zeitgeist (opens in a new tab)
Architecture and cities
Astronomy
- Albedo (opens in a new tab)
- Areology (opens in a new tab)
- Gamma-ray burst (opens in a new tab)
- Kessler Syndrome (opens in a new tab)
- LaserSETI (opens in a new tab)
- Lunation (opens in a new tab)
- Perigee syzygy (opens in a new tab)
- Technosignature (opens in a new tab)
- Tidal locking (opens in a new tab)
- Transient lunar phenomenon (opens in a new tab)
Chemistry
Christian theology
- Acedia (opens in a new tab)
- Anagogy (opens in a new tab)
- Anchorite (opens in a new tab)
- Archon (opens in a new tab)
- Barbelo (opens in a new tab)
- Concupiscence (opens in a new tab)
- Doxology (opens in a new tab)
- Empyrean (opens in a new tab)
- Essence–energies distinction (opens in a new tab)
- Evangeliary (opens in a new tab)
- Father of Greatness (opens in a new tab)
- Felix Culpa (opens in a new tab)
- Hamartiology (opens in a new tab)
- Heresiarch (opens in a new tab)
- Heresiology (opens in a new tab)
- Hesychasm (opens in a new tab)
- Hieromartyr (opens in a new tab)
- Homoousion (opens in a new tab)
- Hyperdulia (opens in a new tab)
- Imiaslavie (opens in a new tab)
- Kenosis (opens in a new tab)
- Kerygma (opens in a new tab)
- Logion (opens in a new tab)
- Mariophany (opens in a new tab)
- Neomartyr (opens in a new tab)
- Nepsis (opens in a new tab)
- Parousia (opens in a new tab)
- Pentarchy (opens in a new tab)
- Philoxeny (opens in a new tab)
- Pneumatology (opens in a new tab)
- Prelest (opens in a new tab)
- Priesthood (opens in a new tab)
- Protennoia (opens in a new tab)
- Soteriology (opens in a new tab)
- Supersessionism (opens in a new tab)
- Tetramorph (opens in a new tab)
- Theopoesis (opens in a new tab)
- Theosis (opens in a new tab)
- Three Eras (opens in a new tab)
- Venial sin (opens in a new tab)
- Yaldabaoth (opens in a new tab)
Climate and weather
Cognitive science
- Affect heuristic (opens in a new tab)
- Affect logic (opens in a new tab)
- Apophenia (opens in a new tab)
- Bisociation (opens in a new tab)
- Bouba kiki effect (opens in a new tab)
- Chronesthesia (opens in a new tab)
- Cognitive acceleration (opens in a new tab)
- Connectomics (opens in a new tab)
- Depressive realism (opens in a new tab)
- Earworm (opens in a new tab)
- Emotional Stroop task (opens in a new tab)
- Enclothed cognition (opens in a new tab)
- Hodological space (opens in a new tab)
- Hypocognition (opens in a new tab)
- Ideasthesia (opens in a new tab)
- Information metabolism (opens in a new tab)
- Interoception (opens in a new tab)
- Moravec's paradox (opens in a new tab)
- Perezhivanie (opens in a new tab)
- Polygraph (opens in a new tab)
- Prefrontal analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Psychonetics (opens in a new tab)
- Semantic Satiation (opens in a new tab)
- Socionics (opens in a new tab)
- Terror management theory (opens in a new tab)
- Umami (opens in a new tab)
Complex systems
Computer science
Constructed languages
Conversation
Cosmology
- Brane cosmology (opens in a new tab)
- Cosmic inflation (opens in a new tab)
- Dirac large numbers hypothesis (opens in a new tab)
- Eddington number (opens in a new tab)
- Ekpyrotic universe (opens in a new tab)
- Fine-tuned universe (opens in a new tab)
- Inflaton (opens in a new tab)
- Particle chauvinism (opens in a new tab)
- Time variation of fundamental constants (opens in a new tab)
Criminology
Cybernetics
Demography
Dreams and altered states
Eastern religions
- Ahura Mazdā (opens in a new tab)
- Anātman (opens in a new tab)
- Bön (opens in a new tab)
- Caodaism (opens in a new tab)
- Chiliocosm (opens in a new tab)
- Dark retreat (opens in a new tab)
- Gymnosophist (opens in a new tab)
- Harihara (opens in a new tab)
- Henotheism (opens in a new tab)
- Hitsuzendo (opens in a new tab)
- Kōan (opens in a new tab)
- Lingam (opens in a new tab)
- Makyō (opens in a new tab)
- Nuo folk religion (opens in a new tab)
- Rainbow body (opens in a new tab)
- Shambhala (opens in a new tab)
- Tukdam (opens in a new tab)
- Yidam (opens in a new tab)
Ecology
- Allelopathy (opens in a new tab)
- Anastomosis (opens in a new tab)
- Epizootic (opens in a new tab)
- Eutrophication (opens in a new tab)
- Malacology (opens in a new tab)
- Mésologie (opens in a new tab)
- Phytophagy (opens in a new tab)
- Synanthrope (opens in a new tab)
- Zoonosis (opens in a new tab)
- Zootechny (opens in a new tab)
Esotericism
- Angel numbers (opens in a new tab)
- Apotropaic magic (opens in a new tab)
- Astragalomancy (opens in a new tab)
- Cleromancy (opens in a new tab)
- Cryptohistory (opens in a new tab)
- Dowsing (opens in a new tab)
- Guerrilla ontology (opens in a new tab)
- Haruspex (opens in a new tab)
- Heka (opens in a new tab)
- Munich Cosmic Circle (opens in a new tab)
- Orthoteny (opens in a new tab)
- Phrenology (opens in a new tab)
- Psychography (opens in a new tab)
- Scrying (opens in a new tab)
- Synchromysticism (opens in a new tab)
- Technomancy (opens in a new tab)
- Tetractys (opens in a new tab)
- Thoughtography (opens in a new tab)
- Tulpa (opens in a new tab)
- Xenoglossy (opens in a new tab)
- Xenu (opens in a new tab)
Ethics
Evolution
- Amphimixis (opens in a new tab)
- Apoptosis (opens in a new tab)
- Cladistics (opens in a new tab)
- Coalescent theory (opens in a new tab)
- Parthenogenesis (opens in a new tab)
- Snake detection theory (opens in a new tab)
- Spiralia (opens in a new tab)
- Synapomorphy (opens in a new tab)
- Vasomotion (opens in a new tab)
Fungi and microbes
Game and decision theory
Genetics
Geology
Grammar
- Aktionsart (opens in a new tab)
- Animacy (opens in a new tab)
- Aoristic aspect (opens in a new tab)
- Barbarism (opens in a new tab)
- Cataphoric (opens in a new tab)
- Cryptotype (opens in a new tab)
- Ditransitive (opens in a new tab)
- Ergative case (opens in a new tab)
- Infix (opens in a new tab)
- Language isolate (opens in a new tab)
- Linguistics wars (opens in a new tab)
- Parataxis (opens in a new tab)
- Pro-form (opens in a new tab)
- Semelfactive (opens in a new tab)
- Solecism (opens in a new tab)
- Thetic sentence (opens in a new tab)
- Tiroir verbal (opens in a new tab)
Gravity and relativity
Insects
Islamic theology
Jewish thought
- En Sof (opens in a new tab)
- Monolatry (opens in a new tab)
- Phylactery (opens in a new tab)
- Qlippoth (opens in a new tab)
- Ruach HaKodesh (opens in a new tab)
- Sanhedrin (opens in a new tab)
- Shekhinah (opens in a new tab)
- Shemitah (opens in a new tab)
- Sheol (opens in a new tab)
- Tsadikim Nistarim (opens in a new tab)
Knowledge
- Conflation (opens in a new tab)
- Explanandum (opens in a new tab)
- Explanans (opens in a new tab)
- Explicandum (opens in a new tab)
- Idiographic approach (opens in a new tab)
- Logomachy (opens in a new tab)
- Noisy investigation (opens in a new tab)
- Postdiction (opens in a new tab)
- Propaedeutics (opens in a new tab)
Language in society
Law and cryptography
Literature and narrative
- Anti-novel (opens in a new tab)
- Biblical speculative fiction (opens in a new tab)
- Bildungsroman (opens in a new tab)
- Diegesis (opens in a new tab)
- Dirty realism (opens in a new tab)
- Ergodic literature (opens in a new tab)
- Exilliteratur (opens in a new tab)
- Frame story (opens in a new tab)
- Hagiography (opens in a new tab)
- Homodiegetic narrator (opens in a new tab)
- Kmart realism (opens in a new tab)
- Metafiction (opens in a new tab)
- Narreme (opens in a new tab)
- Paranoid fiction (opens in a new tab)
- Roman-fleuve (opens in a new tab)
- Sapphism (opens in a new tab)
- Slipstream fiction (opens in a new tab)
- Soliloque (opens in a new tab)
- Transmedia storytelling (opens in a new tab)
Logic
Maps and places
Mathematics
Meaning in language
- Aptronym (opens in a new tab)
- Autological word (opens in a new tab)
- Boulomaic (opens in a new tab)
- Contronym (opens in a new tab)
- Cratylism (opens in a new tab)
- Cryptophasia (opens in a new tab)
- Fixed expression (opens in a new tab)
- Force dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- Fuliginous (opens in a new tab)
- Galimatias (opens in a new tab)
- Inherently funny words (opens in a new tab)
- Logology (opens in a new tab)
- Malapropism (opens in a new tab)
- Onomastisme (opens in a new tab)
- Origo (opens in a new tab)
- Protologism (opens in a new tab)
- Seme (opens in a new tab)
- Skunked term (opens in a new tab)
- Sphota (opens in a new tab)
- Troponym (opens in a new tab)
- Weasel words (opens in a new tab)
Medicine
- Adiposity (opens in a new tab)
- Ageusia (opens in a new tab)
- Akathisia (opens in a new tab)
- Allodynia (opens in a new tab)
- Angiogenesis (opens in a new tab)
- Anosmia (opens in a new tab)
- Auriculotherapy (opens in a new tab)
- Biopsy (opens in a new tab)
- Brachytherapy (opens in a new tab)
- Cycloplegia (opens in a new tab)
- Decellularization (opens in a new tab)
- Electroconvulsive therapy (opens in a new tab)
- Encephalitis lethargica (opens in a new tab)
- Eutonology (opens in a new tab)
- Havana syndrome (opens in a new tab)
- Hemiparesis (opens in a new tab)
- Hypoxia (opens in a new tab)
- Iatrogenesis (opens in a new tab)
- Idiopathic disease (opens in a new tab)
- Inanition (opens in a new tab)
- Iridology (opens in a new tab)
- Moxibustion (opens in a new tab)
- Neoplasm (opens in a new tab)
- Nosology (opens in a new tab)
- Pyrogen (opens in a new tab)
- Saturnism (opens in a new tab)
- Stomatology (opens in a new tab)
- X-ray therapy (opens in a new tab)
Memory
Metaphysics
Military strategy
Music
Myth and folklore
- Baba Yaga (opens in a new tab)
- Doppelganger (opens in a new tab)
- Gigantomachy (opens in a new tab)
- Manticore (opens in a new tab)
- Mytheme (opens in a new tab)
- Psychostasia (opens in a new tab)
- Sibylline (opens in a new tab)
- Theomachy (opens in a new tab)
- Titanomachy (opens in a new tab)
- Tsuchinoko (opens in a new tab)
- Zalmoxianism (opens in a new tab)
Networks
Neurology
Nutrition
Oceans and ice
Paleontology
Perception
- Amblyopia (opens in a new tab)
- Anauralia (opens in a new tab)
- Aphantasia (opens in a new tab)
- Diplopia (opens in a new tab)
- Entoptic (opens in a new tab)
- Gestaltzerfall (opens in a new tab)
- Hyperacusis (opens in a new tab)
- Hypnic jerk (opens in a new tab)
- Microwave auditory effect (opens in a new tab)
- Nearsightedness (opens in a new tab)
- Palinacousis (opens in a new tab)
- Photophobia (opens in a new tab)
- Psithurism (opens in a new tab)
- Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (opens in a new tab)
- The Hum (opens in a new tab)
- Tinnitus (opens in a new tab)
- Xanthopsia (opens in a new tab)
Philosophy of mind
- Angst (opens in a new tab)
- Compersion (opens in a new tab)
- Epistemophilia (opens in a new tab)
- Introjection (opens in a new tab)
- Matheme (opens in a new tab)
- Mono no aware (opens in a new tab)
- Phaneroscopy (opens in a new tab)
- Schadenfreude (opens in a new tab)
- Velleity (opens in a new tab)
- Volition (opens in a new tab)
Philosophy of religion
Plants
Plants and drugs
Poetry and rhetoric
- Acrostic (opens in a new tab)
- Amphibology (opens in a new tab)
- Apophthegm (opens in a new tab)
- Catachresis (opens in a new tab)
- Ekphrasis (opens in a new tab)
- Enjambment (opens in a new tab)
- Enthymeme (opens in a new tab)
- Epanalepsis (opens in a new tab)
- Glosa (opens in a new tab)
- Hypotyposis (opens in a new tab)
- Isotopy (opens in a new tab)
- Kakemphaton (opens in a new tab)
- Lipogram (opens in a new tab)
- Macaronic language (opens in a new tab)
- Scifaiku (opens in a new tab)
- Sound poetry (opens in a new tab)
- Speculative poetry (opens in a new tab)
- Telestich (opens in a new tab)
- Zaum (opens in a new tab)
Politics
- Abenomics (opens in a new tab)
- Aesopian language (opens in a new tab)
- Ankang (opens in a new tab)
- Astroturfing (opens in a new tab)
- Black propaganda (opens in a new tab)
- Carthago delenda est (opens in a new tab)
- Character assassination (opens in a new tab)
- Crescent of Crisis (opens in a new tab)
- Cyberdeutocracy (opens in a new tab)
- Dog whistle (opens in a new tab)
- Ecofascism (opens in a new tab)
- Écrasez l'infâme (opens in a new tab)
- Elagabalus (opens in a new tab)
- Epistemicide (opens in a new tab)
- Fusionism (opens in a new tab)
- Mandate of Heaven (opens in a new tab)
- Nakam (opens in a new tab)
- Netocracy (opens in a new tab)
- Pax Sinica (opens in a new tab)
- Protochronism (opens in a new tab)
- Saddamism (opens in a new tab)
- Stealth marketing (opens in a new tab)
- Syrian Electronic Army (opens in a new tab)
- Terrorgram (opens in a new tab)
Psychiatry
- Abreaction (opens in a new tab)
- Anxiety buffer disruption theory (opens in a new tab)
- Apodyopsis (opens in a new tab)
- Asyndesis (opens in a new tab)
- Axiological psychiatry (opens in a new tab)
- Capgras syndrome (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders (opens in a new tab)
- Clanging (opens in a new tab)
- Cyclothymia (opens in a new tab)
- Diathesis–stress model (opens in a new tab)
- Echolalia (opens in a new tab)
- Erotomania (opens in a new tab)
- Folie à deux (opens in a new tab)
- Foreclosure (opens in a new tab)
- Fregoli delusion (opens in a new tab)
- Gang stalking (opens in a new tab)
- Graphorrhea (opens in a new tab)
- Graphotherapy (opens in a new tab)
- Hebephrenia (opens in a new tab)
- Hybristophilia (opens in a new tab)
- Institutional syndrome (opens in a new tab)
- Knight's move thinking (opens in a new tab)
- Koro (opens in a new tab)
- Logorrhea (opens in a new tab)
- Maladaptive daydreaming (opens in a new tab)
- Mechanophobia (opens in a new tab)
- Misophonia (opens in a new tab)
- Morita Therapy (opens in a new tab)
- Neurasthenia (opens in a new tab)
- Oneirophrenia (opens in a new tab)
- Paragrammatism (opens in a new tab)
- Paralogism (opens in a new tab)
- Pressure of speech (opens in a new tab)
- Psychasthenia (opens in a new tab)
- Psychogenealogy (opens in a new tab)
- Psychogeny (opens in a new tab)
- Religious trauma syndrome (opens in a new tab)
- Schizophasia (opens in a new tab)
- Shenkui (opens in a new tab)
- Soteria house (opens in a new tab)
- Vegetotherapy (opens in a new tab)
- Writer's block (opens in a new tab)
- Zoanthropy (opens in a new tab)
Quantum physics
Recreational mathematics
Ritual
Sleep and body clocks
Social theory
- Cliometrics (opens in a new tab)
- Dirigisme (opens in a new tab)
- Doxodrame (opens in a new tab)
- Emotionology (opens in a new tab)
- Endogenous growth theory (opens in a new tab)
- Holacracy (opens in a new tab)
- Master suppression techniques (opens in a new tab)
- Methodological individualism (opens in a new tab)
- Miscegenation (opens in a new tab)
- Narco-capitalism (opens in a new tab)
- Ordoliberalism (opens in a new tab)
- Orgology (opens in a new tab)
- Phallogocentrism (opens in a new tab)
- Sociocracy (opens in a new tab)
- Thésaurisation (opens in a new tab)
- Yutori education (opens in a new tab)
Spaceflight
Speech sounds
Statistics and probability
Theater
Typography
Visual art
- Asemic writing (opens in a new tab)
- Camera obscura (opens in a new tab)
- Cartonnage (opens in a new tab)
- Christ pantocrator (opens in a new tab)
- Cubomania (opens in a new tab)
- Decalcomania (opens in a new tab)
- Diaphanie (opens in a new tab)
- Galvanoplasty (opens in a new tab)
- Grylle (opens in a new tab)
- Horror vacui (opens in a new tab)
- Isotype (opens in a new tab)
- Laminage (opens in a new tab)
- Mandorla (opens in a new tab)
- Poussinists and Rubenists (opens in a new tab)
- Praxinoscope (opens in a new tab)
- Quadratura (opens in a new tab)
- Terribilità (opens in a new tab)
- Wabi-sabi (opens in a new tab)
- Xylography (opens in a new tab)