subfusc \sub-FUHSK\, adjective:I like it. I'll have to figure out a way to incorporate it into the paper I'm about to complete. How about something along the lines of: "The postmodernist organizational theories described in this section turned the classic theories on their sides and removed a somewhat subfusc shroud from these newer organizational concepts."
Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky.
Perhaps. This professor may enjoy this sort of description. Then again...
I dunno. I'm actually looking for a word like this that I'd like to attempt to throw into the dissertation at some point, just because I can.
OK, I just need to finish this paper now before I become too prolix!
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infelicitation
Saw this word, looked it up, and decided it would be my "I must use it" term - managed to sneak it in twice.
We need these in-jokes to keep us slightly sane.
Subfusc is a compound word. Sub, from the latin for "under" and fusc as a shortening of the latin fuscato "to confuse or to mask" as in obfuscate. In other words, a downplaying of color to make something less obvious. See "drab" or "dun".
>>>puts away his tissue paper mortarboard<<<
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