Neologism: Retrochromaticize or Rechrome

 To retrochromaticize is to color events of the past with the sentiments of the present. In casual conversation, rechrome is an acceptable substitute.

As an example, if you had enjoyable times with a person, then experienced a falling out and looked back on all the good as now bad, you would be retrochromaticizing the relationship.

The brain is good at diminishing the intensity of pain memories, e.g. childbirth. This is an example of retrochromaticization, or rechroming, where perhaps the body's innate desire to reproduce rechromes the pain memory associated with prior reproduction.

I know this combines a Latin and a Greek root, but I tried both retrocolorize and anachromaticize, and neither of those had the same bite.

Sermonaic

If a demonaic is someone possessed by a demon, is a sermonaic someone possessed by a sermon? Could this be said of someone who's been whipped into a frenzy by a preacher?

Anatomy of a Neologism: Obesiteur

I found myself in a quandary some time ago. How could I refer to a fat person in a clinical manner without using more than a single word? We obviously already have terms like fatty and gargantua, but those carry a negative connotation. I wanted something neutral.

Since obese comes from the French obésité, I thought it fitting to tack on the -eur suffix, giving us obesiteur. Now, the problem is that in French, this is a masculine ending. If we want a corresponding feminine ending, we'd get obesitress, or in the French spelling, obesitrice. I'm not sure how much I like gendering nouns in English, so I'd probably relegate my usage to the male-only.

As you've guessed, the French comes from Latin (obesitas), so another valid construction would be using the Latin agent suffixes -or and -rix, giving us obesitor and obesitrix. I will admit, I cackled for a good thirty seconds after "obesitrix" came into my mind. I could only think of things like, "He bowed genuflect to truckle and beg, but her ears were shut and her mouth open. Eyes wide like a horse in terror, he swiftly fell into the maw of the obesitrix." I blame it on the BDSM community.

If we're dipping into the crass, I can likely think of many more words, obeast being chief among them, but let us forbear. What else might ring neutral enough? Paunch-bearer? The hyphenation feels like cheating. I get a chuckle out of obeseling due to its oxymoronic nature. Sebacle (sebaceous debacle)? Oh no, we've veered once more into the pejorative... I would probably also run amiss by suggesting impressionist, one who leaves impressions (as they walk). My better judgment would prevent me from suggesting chairbane and expandrake (the ever-increasing dragon).

It might also be fun to come up with a term for a skinny person. Spareling, skeleton, leaniac, exhiribtionist (one who exhibits their ribs), svelton. I do like svelton, but that comes with a connotation of elegance that isn't endemic to all skinny people.

Mellonostalgia

This is a post merely to document a new word I've coined. Mellonostalgia is a combination of the Greek mellon (future) and nostalgia. It is a wistful longing for things that have not yet been. Things that, perhaps, may never be.

Some examples. Your friend is going to go to school for a degree that you have gotten. Your brain cycles through all the possibilities they have before them, all the things which you did and wish you had done, and perhaps your heart hurts in anticipation on their behalf. This is mellonostalgia.

Someone you loved deeply breaks up with you. Your world is shattered, and your mind flashes through the life you could have had together. The small moments you might have shared. This is mellonostalgia. A rueful remembrance of the future.