Galaxy-brain
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Appearing to be insightful and profound, but actually absurd, incomprehensible, or nonsensical. Internet, sarcastic, usually
"On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic."
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More examples"On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic."
Etymology
From a popular image macro meme in which a series of increasingly absurd or surreal thoughts is paired with images of a human brain expanding and emitting progressively brighter beams of light, thus ironically framing the ideas as too profound for average minds to comprehend.
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