- noun
- A training process in which the student is medicated into a trance-like state that results in perfect recall.
- Origin
- Derived from the acronym EPT (‘education for particular tasks’).
- Source
- Stand on Zanzibar
- noun
- A person with psychic powers.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘extra-sensory perception’.
- Source
- The Demolished Man
- noun
- A species not originating from the planet Terre.
- Origin
- Formed from éxō (foreign) and terra (ground).
- Source
- Embassytown
- noun
- A written document stored in electronic form.
- Source
- Light
- noun archaic
- A person not native to the planet they are inhabiting.
- Source
- Planet of Exile
- verb
- The intuitive perception of a moral entirety.
- Source
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- noun informal
- An an urbmon resident who commits non-social acts.
- Origin
- “They flip; they thwart.”
- Source
- The World Inside
- verb
- Practising the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah.
- Origin
- Coined by immersers.
- Source
- Embassytown