I ask people their favorite words

Current favourite word: Apotheosis

Meanings:

The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.

Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.

The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).

A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).

Tempest :3

ngl right now it’s ‘irritated’. don’t know what that says about me tbh.

my favourite word changes frequently tho and I tend to repeat a lot of words that I like due to my echolalia.

"interesting"

Feeling like this is even worse than picking a favourite child...

In French, clearly, éphémère (= short-lived, ephemeral in English) because I don't think there's a real possibility of eternity.

I.

In A Slip of the Keyboard, Terry Pratchett makes a very convincing argument for sussuration: a whispering noise. He also uses it to great effect as one of the words Tiffany Aching learned from the dictionary, in an even prettier form: sussurus.

Doesn't that sound exactly like what it is? Isn't that beautiful? The onomatopoeia of it.

II.

For that matter: Onomatopoeia.

III.

I have long been partial to the word cast: giving shape to something. Casting magic. Cast-iron. Needing a cast, being part of the cast. Kasten, Kiste, Kirsten, Löwenjagd. Association!

IV.

Brocéliande.

V.

Any word or name with an M and an R and maybe an L: open vowels. Soft and rolling. Merlin, Marlowe, Maurice. Open skies and rolling seas. Maria: Sea of Bitterness. Mry: Beloved. Merlin, the bird. Marlin, the fish. Mairelon, the magician. Merrin, Merril, Marten. L like a leap into open sky. M like a mouse. R like a cat. Mrrrrr. *pounces*.

VI.

My discord friends will tell you it is actually "anyway,"

VII.

In the Beginning was the word. In the beginning was the void. In the beginning was everything, but formless, roiling, dark. A sea of nothingness, roiling in storm, calm as a whisper.

In the beginning was chaos.

The world was shaped from that: Cast, like magic. Cast, like the craft.

Anything is possible when everything is available and nothing is done. Buck up, be brave: be bold. Be good, be strong, be gentle.

If nothing is set in stone, everything is water: shaping a wave, and falling away, like the flowers of Master Hora.

I don't have one consistent one. I like a lot of words.

Spent ALL day thinking about it but I think I settled for