Dross

Define: Dross

noun

noun: dross

1. something regarded as worthless; rubbish.

   "there are bargains if you have the patience to sift through the dross"

   synonyms:

   rubbish, junk; More debris, chaff, detritus, flotsam and jetsam, garbage, trash, dreck "trying to find something decent among the discount-house dross"

   • foreign matter, dregs, or mineral waste, in particular scum formed on the surface of molten metal. (google)

Misanthropy

Define Misanthropy:
a dislike of humankind.
(google)

Erudite

Define erudite:
having or showing great knowledge or learning.
(google)

Clandestine

Define Clandestine:
kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
(google)

Enigmatic

Define Enigmatic:

1. difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.
(google)

Fallacy

Define Fallacy:

noun

   noun: fallacy; plural noun: fallacies

1.

a mistaken belief, esp. one based on unsound argument.

  
Logic

a failure in reasoning that renders an argument invalid.

faulty reasoning; misleading or unsound argument. 

"the potential for fallacy which lies behind the notion of self-esteem"

elegy

Define elegy:

1. a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

2. (in Greek and Roman poetry) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.

-Google

aesthetics

Define aesthetics:

1.a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, esp. in art.

*the branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of beauty and artistic taste.

 

a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.

(google)

Entropy

Define: entropy

1. A thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often...
2. Lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.

Nomenclature

Define: Nomenclature

1. The devising or choosing of names for things, esp. in a science or other discipline.
2. The body or system of such names in a particular field: "the nomenclature of chemical compounds".

Lucid

Define Lucid:

1. Expressed clearly; easy to understand: "a clear and lucid style".
2.  Showing ability to think clearly, esp. in the intervals between periods of confusion or insanity.

Catharsis

Define: Catharsis

Noun

1. The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
2. Purgation 

(google)

I love the soundtrack to Kobato; Kaze no Catharsis
I also like Amber Sky, Boushi no Waltz, and Tooi Hi no Wasuremono, heck, I just love them all!

Permeate

Define: Permeate

Verb

Spread throughout (something); pervade. (google)

"So as to permeate, it disappeared into the thin air"
-moonlight restaurant

Thoughtful Zombie

New song! Found today, I really like it. I almost can't believe it's a cover, and an English one at that! The original one was Japanese, so it takes some skill to get the same meaning in a song while still having it make sense and sound good when its given to another language. Of course, the lyrics are not the same, but they got pretty close. The video below the first one is the Japanese version, covered by the same person.

Original Lyrics
Original Song 

Define Qualia:
plural of quale

Noun

"A quality or property as perceived or experienced by a person."

- google

I had such a time trying to figure out what that meant....even this definition didn't make any sense to me, but I read another little article (here), and I think I get it finally.

Tautology

Tautology:

 Noun

1. The saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g., they arrived one after the...
2. A phrase or expression in which the same thing is said twice in different words.

-google def.

Have I been said twice in different words?
Tautology

Lyrics