mondaine

Candy struggled into what she thinks of as her "mondaine" outfit. She got it from Cherise -- the word, not the outfit, she had to explain to Tina. Tina is so not mondaine.

mondaine

(adj) belonging to fashionable society; worldy

It was a mundane Monday when Mona stepped out into the street wearing her 8-inch heels and 8 inch skirt, feeling as mondaine as a young woman should.

tmesis

(noun) separation of parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words (e.g. un-bloody-likely)

Harry was trying to change his flight at the last moment, enthusiastically working his way up the customer support chain. He was also single-handedly reshaping national tmesis statistics.

nympholepsy

In the end, it was the closing scene that did it. After three weeks, he could still not find the dialogue to convey the essence of the new Martha, the transformed Martha. Everything he put in her mouth sounded flat, banal. He could see her, he knew how she walked, gestured, he could hear the inflection of her voice, but her words remained, infuriatingly, just out of reach.

And so, one Thursday afternoon, in a fit of nympholepsy, he tore up the manuscript and walked into the sea.

NYMPHOLEPSY

NYMPHOLEPSY/ˈnɪmfəlɛpsi/
(A wild frenzy caused by desire for an unattainable ideal.)

The fan park was awash with Bafana Bafana supporters hungry for a South African victory, gripped in the nympholepsy of Aaron Mokoena holding the golden cup.