- noun
- A spiritual leader primarily engaged in moneymaking activities.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘pastor’ and ‘entrepreneur’.
- Source
- Godmother
- noun
- A behaviour alteration procedure that uses hypnosis to induce an extreme aversion to certain stimulus.
- Source
- Dogfight
- noun
- A scientific field concerned with digitizing the personality of an individual.
- Source
- The Beast Has Died
- noun
- A device used to prepare a time traveller’s cellular structure and brain patterns for survival in their selected time period.
- Origin
- Derived from atavus (ancestor) and khrónos (time).
- Source
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- 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 informal
- An an urbmon resident who commits non-social acts.
- Origin
- “They flip; they thwart.”
- Source
- The World Inside
- noun
- An entity or phenomenon which harvests and consumes information, particularly information about itself.
- Origin
- Meme, a unit of cultural information transmitted from one mind to another.
- Source
- There Is No Antimemetics Division
- adjective
- Crudely physical; not taking into account the topography of Cleavage.
- Origin
- Formed from gross (without deductions) and topical (related to a particular place).
- Source
- The City & The City
- noun
- The alternate identity of a place co-located in the Cleaved cities of Besel and Ul Qoma.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘topography’ and ‘doppelganger’.
- Source
- The City & The City
- noun
- A word, which when spoken inveigles its way into the mind of the speaker and manifests itself in his flesh.
- Origin
- Named for the parasitic manifestation caused by the word.
- Source
- Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia
- noun informal
- A person who is sexually attracted to spacers.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘free-fall-sexual-displacement complex’.
- Source
- Aye, and Gomorrah…
- verb
- The intuitive perception of a moral entirety.
- Source
- The Left Hand of Darkness