Avosine

Of or related to the qualities of a good "grandfather".
From the Latin "avos"=grandfather, and the suffix "-inum" = "of, like, having the qualities of"

The teacher brought his ripened avosine skills into play by holding and coddling the unwed-mother-student's restive baby while she took her final exam.

avosine

From the Latin «avos» = grandfather and “-ine” = like, resembling.
1. -ine is a suffix of adjectives of Greek or Latin origin, meaning “of or pertaining to,” “of the nature of,” “made of,” “like”: asinine; crystalline; equine; marine.

While his student went up to collect her technical degree, the venerable, avosine Professor proffered his help, then put all of his skills and years of experience to work, calming and coddling the restive, restless little wee baby that the young woman had just recently born.

timmer-temmer

timmer-temmer (adjective) : A behavior combining timorousness and temerity. (timorous-temerous), courage and desire combined with fear. Often seen in wild park animals used to human contact—approach and retreat. Other examples, monkeys approaching humans, small shy children wanting to take something from an adult or another child, even fish being fed by scuba divers.

The sparrows hopped timmer-temmer around our table, attentive of the stray or intentional crumb.

Egopath

Egopathy is more socially acceptable than psychopathy, as self-interest is encouraged and praised in countries where liberal capitalism is the central economic system...but it is certainly not limited only to these types of systems.

It is a general condition of human beings.

On the "pure-self-interest --group-solidarity/altruism" scale Egopaths skew strongly to egocentrism and self-interest;
I didn't think that the DSM definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorders quite fits the bill and this apparently widespread phenomenon needed a new category: definitely under the DSM Cluster B Group (Anitsocial-Borderline-Histrionic-Narcissistic), but with a more social-/group-mentality component to it.

The term "egopath" popped into my head one morning, but discovered it already had a definition.

There is in my definition the whole aspect of wanting to control and defend, however one has defined it, one's "integrity" -- bodily, cognitive, spiritual, destiny related -- against forces encroaching on, pushing for this integrity's demise, disintegration.

We are all on this continuum, but egopaths tend to be more cowardly, fearful, self-interested and self-preserving.
N.B. Egopathy seems to be a) widespread and b) quite socially acceptable in many countries.

For example, in German-speaking Switzerland, they say, "Geiz ist Geil!".

Translated: "Greediness is Great/Cool!"

1) During the Covid pandemic, my best-friend turned out to be a total egopath, not wanting to even visit us despite our double-vaccination and social-distancing, for fear of her getting it herself or somehow losing her sense of smell.

2) They were such egopaths during the pandemic that they flew to a vacation in Croatia by plane, but then drove back in a mini-bus accross the Italian border to avoid the stringencies of the controls at their home airport.

Gollyplot

Someone who is versed in all sorts of different conspiracy theories, from all over the world, even in different languages...and who spews them gladly and constantly.

"His high-school knowledge of French combined with his ravenous appetite for arcane, unprovable, specious knowledge made him a gollyplot par excellence! He spread the 'secret' of Emmanuel Macron's lascivious habit of dressing up as the Empress Joséphine far-and-wide on the social media platforms, under his nom-de-plume: Pendraggin. "

quoddly-bit

That part of a greater whole of anything which you especially, particularly favor.
Comes from the Latin "quod libel" -- What I like!

-- I couldn't wait for that scene in "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" when the Italian officer asks, "Where is the fire?"
-- Out grandkids always dug out their quoddly-bits of melted M&Ms from the muffins their mother had made, leaving

behind clumps of miniscule-crater-pitted, uneaten muffin-cake.
-- There's that one part in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, toward the end of the second-third of the melody -- THAT's my quoddly-bit.... get transported away in a flood of all-body tingling goosebumps. Wow!

Novacula Franqui (aka Novacula Frangiscc' aka Frankie's Razor)

Goes something like this:
-- Don’t people the scientifically as yet unexplained, unexplored areas of our world and reality with wild – or otherwise – conjecture you propose as “TRUTH”.
-- Rigorously relegate said “beliefs” to the realm of wishful-/magical-thinking, fantasy, and fiction or – at the very least – have the courage to …
-- Present “them” as theories open to testing, fact-based repudiation, public scrutiny … and then
ACCEPT THE RESULTS !!! Or – at the very least –
Have the humility and intellectual honesty to call them what they are:
MY OWN …
Crazy Ideas
Desires
Self-psyche-salving delusions (at worst)/”fables” (at best) that help me get through the night,

help me get through life.

See ALSO: Occam’s Razor, Chatton’s Anti-Razor, Hickam’s Dictum, Leibniz’s and Kant’s anti-razors, Crabtree’s Bludgeon, Pataphysics.

Because he refused to even consider the Novacula Franqui (aka Novacula Frangiscc' aka Frankie's Razor), let alone use it, he peopled his ideas of what was going on around him, and in the world at large, with dark Deep States, Alien Beings, Cabals of Reptile-People, et al. Nothing is simply as it seems!!! It gave him the frisson he needed to keep from self-reflection.