What’s the name for that? 18 words for things you never knew had a name

An eggcorn is a word or a phrase that is often used by mistake for another. For example, a common eggcorn is for “all intensive purposes” instead of, the correct, “all intents and purposes.”

If you love the smell of fresh air after rain stops, you appreciate petrichor. This pleasant smell is thanks to a mix of bacteria, plants, and lightning, BBC reports.

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The glabella is the flat piece of skin between the eyebrows.

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The feeling you have where you can’t get out of bed has a name: dysania. Although it’s not an official condition, the BBC reports that the behaviour isn’t just feeling sleepier than usual. It’s often seen in people suffering from depression.

One of the common running jokes about doctors is their awful handwriting. And their scrawl has a name, griffonage. The French word means careless or illegible handwriting.

Zugzwang doesn’t roll off the tongue, but it does refer to something people have to do often: something that you don’t want to do. The word specifically refers to a chess game strategy where a player is forced to make a move that they don’t want to make.

Nope, an unkindness doesn’t just refer to something cruel. A group of ravens is actually called an unkindness. The phrase stems from the fact that ravens have higher stress levels when they travel in a pack.

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If you ever get sand in your eye, it likely forms in the caruncle – the small, pink inner corner of the eye. It’s one of the parts of the body that gets very little credit.

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Source: RD.com