I love words. Love playing with them, rearranging them, using them, admiring them. I’d eat them if I could. So I’m going to start sharing those that particularly take my fancy.
My word of the day is efficacy.
Wikipedia definition:
"Efficacy is the capacity to produce a desired size of an effect under ideal or optimal conditions. It is these conditions that distinguish efficacy from the related concept of effectiveness, which relates to change under real-life conditions. "
I love that word! While I was studying for my equine science degree I met it almost daily, but it has now become one of those friends you sort of lose touch with.
Yet I remain true.
A word I used to great effect in my uni assignments. A word I miss. Not a word I’m likely to use much in my fantasy romance writing.
Hmm. The possibilities...
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Possibilities?? 'Fraid I'm not seeing many ;)
I understood about one word in three of that definition. So it's possible to be completely efficacious, yet totally ineffective at the same time?
'Actually, my dear, my technique is a model of efficacy. You're just an ugly tart.'
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