EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE, MAYBE
Scientists are looking for extraterrestrial life with terrestrial attributes.
Extraterrestrials may be different from humans and breathe some other ikpulity*.
“Scientists may be looking for the wrong type of extraterrestrial life.
There may be other forms of lives that are not humanoid, “plantoid,” “animaloid,” “bacteroid,” “viroid,” or other -“oids” seen on earth”—Chidiogo.
Ikpulity defined
Ikpulity
noun
\ ikpulity \
Definition
:things of the same kind, a generic term used for effect
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
acme, etc, and so on, surprise, nonsense, exclamation, MacGuffin, confine
Examples
//I bought bread, tuna, onions, and other ikpulities to make a tuna sandwich.
It was a tremendous ikpulity—an expression of surprise
What type of Ikpulity is that?—what nonsense is that?
Mind your ikpulity—stay in your lane
Antonyms
nothing, opposite, letdown, wander
First Known Use
1995, in the meaning defined above by Farmer Chukwudi Nwankwo
Ama Ndlovu explores the connections of culture, ecology, and imagination.
Her work combines ancestral knowledge with visions of the planetary future, examining how Black perspectives can transform how we see our world and what lies ahead.
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