so.. i was just setting a status message on msn.. and the word i was trying to find eluded me..
so i hopped on over to rhymezone.com and looked up the antonynom.. to find they had none listed..
there doesn't seem to be a single word describing the opposite of nocturnal.. apparently being awake and active during the day is such a part of our nature.. there's no commonly used word to even describe the concept..
i find this.. i'm not sure.. not really unsettling, or intriguing, i suppose noteworthy is the best i can come up with..
*edit* so i was wrong.. and now that a friend pointed it out to me. i do remember the word.. diurnal.. i still find it odd that it wasn't listed on rhymezone as they're normally always there for my synonym and antonym needs..
so i hopped on over to rhymezone.com and looked up the antonynom.. to find they had none listed..
there doesn't seem to be a single word describing the opposite of nocturnal.. apparently being awake and active during the day is such a part of our nature.. there's no commonly used word to even describe the concept..
i find this.. i'm not sure.. not really unsettling, or intriguing, i suppose noteworthy is the best i can come up with..
*edit* so i was wrong.. and now that a friend pointed it out to me. i do remember the word.. diurnal.. i still find it odd that it wasn't listed on rhymezone as they're normally always there for my synonym and antonym needs..
Do you not remember my crazy fascination over this from like... say... 6 years ago-ish?
When I couldn't find out what it meant, I went around calling it "urnal-urnal" becuase the urnal part means day.. and the noct part means night.
I think it was the FBI that told me Urnal-Urnal sounded like some kinda superhero or something... and then I went on making up storie about "The Adventures of Urnal-Urnal"
This is still all so very prominent in my mind, that I was completely shocked that you didn't know the word in the first place ;p