Aubade, CFR, Acosmist

Hey. There are more words here this week. Aubade, CFR, and Acosmist.

 Aubade: Kimmy: A fruit native to South Africa
               Mom: Someone who punishes slaves
               Jessie: The crash of waves on the shore
               Dad:  The only word I can think of with aub- in it is Auburn...
               Kevin:  A type of fish with teeth that look like a human's. A smiling fish.
Contrastive Focus Reduplication: Kimmy: When people get in line and look at their phones, then when they look up at their phones, they see they are going the wrong way.
                                           Mom: Taking a second look at something.
                                           Jessie: A mix up of your brain's ability to focus in different situation
                                           Dad:  A redundant word. (So Close!)
                                           Kevin:  Hmm. The experience in Transcendentalism when your brain is 50 years old.
Acosmist: Kimmy: A person who gives really good hugs.
                  Mom: Someone who is not of this universe
                  Jessie: Someone who has experienced the space and stars and the moon and asteroids and planets and meteors and meteorites and meteoroids and black holes and white holes.
                  Dad:  Someone who is a stargazer.
                  Kevin:  Someone who is on a really really really strict diet.

An Aubade , in contrast to its antonym, a serenade, is a song usually performed at dawn, just as morning is breaking. This is what I need in my life.  Music in the mornings... Anyway, the term Aubade has a few origins, but are all directly correlated. The Occitan (Old French) roots aubada and auba both mean dawn, but the term Aubade also comes from the Latin -alba, which is a (vulgar) term for Woman. Literally, Aubade means "A song performed at dawn to a sleeping woman."
I just found out, while researching this word, that it is actually supposed to be about 2 lovers parting at dawn. So that's kind of sad.

Contrastive Focus Reduplication: I'm really glad I'm able to do this word. It doesn't have much information, but it's something that we can all relate to. CFR is  whenever you repeat a word for emphasis. Think of the common Elementary School Phrase, "Do you like her, or do you like-like her?" Or, just think of Drake and Josh. Thank you, Josh Nichols, for teaching us all about emphasis and CFR. This term has also been called "The Word-Word" and "Lexical Cloning," which is so much better.

Ah, yes. Josh Nichols was the epitome
of Contrastive Focus Reduplication.

Finally, an Acosmist is someone who doesn't believe in anything. Nothing. At all.  No religion, no science, no magic, and no miracles. *Laaaaaaaame* They don't even believe in the Universe. They "believe" that we are all just illusions. Acosmism is a philosophy, and it sounds like a pretty boring (yet intriguing) one. The main reasoning behind it is that there is one Absolute, and it is infinite.

Sorry, I didn't have very good words with large backgrounds. I'm going to try and be detailed in the coming weeks. But, I'm running low on words...

Yeah.