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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] Dasus 21 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Those are all heterological words, just like "phonetic".

Autological (or homological) would be words like "pentasyllabic", "unhyphenated" and "writable.".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Does the word heterological describe itself?

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