Sometimes you can add words to your vocabulary just by
reading a cartoon. On August 12, 2020 Zach Weinersmith published a Saturday
Morning Breakfast Cereal web cartoon with the following dialogue:
Woman: Autological words are my hobby.
Man: What’s that?
Woman: Words that describe themselves.
Polysyllabic is polysyllabic.
Man: This is stupid.
Woman: ‘Term” is a term for term.
Man: Stop.
Woman: And then there’s ‘pareidolia.’
Man: What’s that?
Woman: It refers to the perception of meaning in a random
pattern. Like seeing faces in clouds
Man: So…
Woman: It looks just like a caterpillar.
Asking for an autological word probably would be too
difficult for a Table Topics question at a Toastmasters club meeting. Pareidolia
also is an impressive term!
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