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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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We tend to describe the pupil as though it's its own actual separate part of the eye. It's almost strange to think about the fact that in reality it's just a hole in the Iris and not a "thing" at all. (lemmy.ca)
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For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

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[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 45 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I mean we have lots of words for varying degrees and styles of "nothing".

A chasm is the empty space between two chunks of the earths crust.

A void is just an empty space well... Void of all things.

An interval is just the time between two events. Technically it's nothing.

Still a good shower thought. There aren't a ton of words dedicated to the same phenomenon, but we have a handful.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Well, well, well, indeed.

[–] Mitsu@pawb.social 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Also just

“Space” as a place to go

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Good ol fashion space.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty good number of them if you count things like intermission. Slit, slot, crack, aperture, interlude, gap, breach, etc. Others, too.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

When I said "handful" I more so meant in all of language yeah there are probably hundreds of words for the empty space between certain things, but in all of human language that's probably a pretty small number.