Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Idefix

👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little word! Now, you probably haven't stumbled upon "־‏idefix," unless maybe you spend a frankly alarming amount of time obsessively researching obscure Germanic dialects and Victorian melodrama. Let me enlighten you.

Ide… what now exactly? That is the question. Essentially, an "־‏idefix," as it was historically rather dramatically termed, isn’t quite a fix to an idea . Instead, and here's where things get delightfully weird, it's the act of stubbornly, almost violently, attempting to cement a ludicrous, already-dubitable belief into reality. It is the desperate shoving of something profoundly improbable into the accepted truth. ־‏Idefixes are fuelled by ego, delusion, and a frankly impressive capacity for self-deception. They tend to involve elaborate justifications, circular arguments, and a generous sprinkling of outright lies. Think of it as trying to staple a flamingo onto a perfectly sensible blueprint—you're fighting the laws of logic with a hot glue gun. You don’t fix anything; you just… insist that something should be there anyway . ־‏Idefixes are born not from reason, but from the fervent conviction that you already know what is. Basically they were an antiquated term for trying to force one's own convictions into others. --- Here's a rather unsettling (and hopefully funny) example sentence: "