Comments on: Apophenia — Filling the Blanks

By: Roger Green

Roger Green — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:57:30 +0000

I came across this created word guanophenia, which the writer defined as “a euphemism for the state or condition of being bats### crazy. http://www.dustbury.com/archives/12832

Given the definition of -phenia you so nicely provided, seems like a reasonable neologism.

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:44:50 +0000

hmm, interesting. the conversationg, concept, everthing. btw, i just googled apophenia and got 183,000 results. explanation? anyway, this is a great term for me to use in my story! hmm…is there any way to erase apophenia in the brain? this could be the cause of a ton of medical diseases! XD

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:07:44 +0000

You have way too much time on your hands, Jason. Thanks for the lesson, Thegreekguy.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:35:12 +0000

Clearly Peter is a party to the apophenia conspiracy. He is trying to distract us from recognizing the patterns in his posts. With the first two words of the earlier post, “It’s misspelled”, and the last five of his second post, “result in apophania, not apophenia”, we can see his true name.

The first letters from each word spell out “I’m Riana”. Now you see the depth of the deception. Riana is clearly a woman’s name, where Peter is a man’s, so the only conclusion is that he/she likes to obscure facts about words and names. See the pattern?

By: Thegreekguy

Thegreekguy — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:47:01 +0000

The word is apophenia, and Peter, what is a real word anyway? The ancient greek and the modern greek are the same, the only thing that changes is the vocabulary. The word is derived from:

Απο which can mean -away or -from somewhere or something

and phenia which is coming from φαινω which can mean to construct or to look similar.

the greek α+ι sounds like the e in the word phenomenon which is derived from the word φαινω.

summarizing… the the word apophenia is a genuine greek word with greek roots and means

to construct (phenia) from something (apo)