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LIMERENCE
Definition of LIMERENCE
noun
An involuntary romantic infatuation with another person, especially combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From limer- (“a coined, arbitrary first element”) + -ence. Coined by American psychologist Dorothy Tennov in 1977 as an arbitrary euphonious replacement or alteration of the word amorance.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LIMERENCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 169, 5 November 2026.
Built from these letters
LIMERENCE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEEILMNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Could you have found LIMERENCE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 169 - and most players walked straight past it.
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