Why this word is great
LAPUTAN — [Adjective] Characterized by absurdly impractical, visionary, or wildly fanciful schemes, especially in philosophy or science. From the proper name Laputa, the fictional flying island in Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' (1726), + the English suffix -an (meaning 'of or pertaining to'). Unlike pragmatic, which anchors itself in the possible, or empirical, which demands sensory proof, laputan describes the mind preferring the elegant architecture of an idea to the messy world it allegedly explains. It is the inventor’s machine for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, the philosopher’s treatise on the music of silent spheres, and the architect’s city of perfect geometry built upon a swamp—the tragicomic grandeur of intellect, forever tempted to flee the stubborn, intractable earth.