Monday, March 3, 2025

Word of the day:psychophant

Speaking of searching for the right word, I thought of one last night:

psychophant \ ˈsī-kə-ˌfənt \ noun
: a sycophant of a psychopath

Sample sentence: Mary is a psychophant , lost in servile adulation of a deeply unstable person.
I would like to see this word catch on. (Sure, sure.) It joins three other words I’ve thought of for our political discourse: misinflame, misinflammation, and skeptiphobia. Unlike those words, psychophant didn’t come to me in a dream.

comments: 2

Fresca said...

Your "search for the right word" yielded an excellent return!

Interesting your psychophant is named Mary...
Would her last name start with an "M"?

Michael Leddy said...

Magic 8 Ball says “Signs point to yes.”