the terms “luminous” and “luminosity” already exist and serve the same purpose
And they’re worse. Specifically they are ingroup jargon with a well known outgroup meaning that looks somewhere between an amusing non-sequitur and arrogant. “You’re claiming to glow?”
ist is at least a recognizable English language template.
Given that “alicorn” is a word, I think “Alicornist” is also ingroup jargon. You’d have to know who I am to understand it. Otherwise it’s “do you worship unicorn horns or something?”
It’s a word that I had to Google, and I have a medium-large vocabulary. “Luminous” is not. You are third in the search results. I think it would easily be seen as a name.
And they’re worse. Specifically they are ingroup jargon with a well known outgroup meaning that looks somewhere between an amusing non-sequitur and arrogant. “You’re claiming to glow?”
ist is at least a recognizable English language template.
Given that “alicorn” is a word, I think “Alicornist” is also ingroup jargon. You’d have to know who I am to understand it. Otherwise it’s “do you worship unicorn horns or something?”
It’s a word that I had to Google, and I have a medium-large vocabulary. “Luminous” is not. You are third in the search results. I think it would easily be seen as a name.
Don’t forget about Google’s annoying tendency to give you relevant search results.
Our Alicorn is second, third, sixth, and seventh on the search results for Alicorn here, not counting “in your social circle”.
Awww, warmfuzzies :)
Using “Startpage.com″ (which runs anonymous google searches—useful for getting non-personalized results), I got:
Alicorn—results #9 and #10 (behind lots of My Little Pony) Luminosity—result #4, which is pretty good given the brain-training game of the same name.
The brain training game is Lumosity.