Word of the day.............. NOT!!!

Like most of y'all, when I come across a word that I have never seen before and can't define even within the context of it's use --- I Google it! In the old days before the Internet, I'da probably just breezed past it rather than dig out the 12 pound Webster's Dictionary.

But now, with the world at my fingertips, I no longer allow myself that privilege.

Thus when I was reading a short article today about the reasons for the high divorce rate among today's young married (read - 30 & 40 year olds), the author blamed it on the solipsism of that generation. Whoa Nellie! Solipsism? WTH?

So I looked it up on line:

Definition of SOLIPSISM

: a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing;

I still didn't have a clue - but then fortunately ole' Merriam added: 'extreme egocentrism'.

Now that, after the last couple of years, I could understand. However, somehow I don't see myself adding this new word to my active, daily vocabulary - lest I spend my days trying to think of ways to insert the word in a conversation instead thinking about the topic at hand. That would be kinda solipsistic of me wouldn't it?