#owotd

Ozian Words of the Day:

O’Flahertie Will Get You Nowhere

I recall learning the word polyonymous from this Word-a-Day web site—it means having many names. It resonates because I always suspected Oscar of being a confirmed and secret polyonymist, freely dispensing with at least three of his five birth names which he considered too much ballast for the heights he soared, and then changing his name altogether when he came…

Being a first-time sorta copywriter (I still can’t bring myself to call myself a copywriter for I’m not ‘there’ yet), I’ve encountered and found WEIRD words that I personally have never seen before or they’re odd words that I’ve rarely used. Introducing #owotd, an acronym for Odd Word of the Day. I would be sharing a series of interesting find and tell what the word means just for added knowledge. First in the series, here’s the odd word for today.

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‘Tetrachromat’

As said from Wikipedia, Tetrachromacy is... 

“the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying colour information, or possessing four types of cone cells in the eye.” 

Or in simple language, a person who can see colours to an estimated 100 million colours, 100 times more than an average person. Incredible ain’t it?

I’ve came across the word from an Instagram post about the launch of MAC’s latest Liptensity lipstick - all new, never been seen colours - with the help of tetrachromats. Apparently, a famous tetrachromat is out there and she’s an artist named Concetta Antico. In her interview with NYMAG, she said “snow is colourful”! Well, that explains the condition.

Either way, it truly is a gift, I would really like to meet one and discuss the colours I can’t see.