nimbification
May. 19th, 2022 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordnimbification - n., (obs., rare) the formation of clouds, esp. rain clouds.
That's per the OED entry, the only place I've found this. Frankly, I was expecting it to be about turning into a NIMBY, someone who insists that useful things be built Not In My Back Yard, but nope. Coined in 1813 from Latin nimbus, luminous cloud + -fication, making.
---L.
That's per the OED entry, the only place I've found this. Frankly, I was expecting it to be about turning into a NIMBY, someone who insists that useful things be built Not In My Back Yard, but nope. Coined in 1813 from Latin nimbus, luminous cloud + -fication, making.
---L.
