Anecdoche

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Anecdoche

n.
a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening— instead merely overlaying words like a spoken game of Scrabble, each player borrowing bits of others’ anecdotes to build out their own, until we reach a point when we all run out of things to say.

From anecdote, a short and often amusing account of real-life events + synecdoche, a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole. Pronounced “uh-nek-doh-kee.”

Ludiosis

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Siso

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Catoptric Tristesse

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Kenaway

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Tillid

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Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Ledsome

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Fygophobia

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Routwash

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Kinchy

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Kuebiko

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Anecdoche

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Aftergloom

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Anthrodynia

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Wytai

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Momophobia

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Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Antiophobia

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Waldosia

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Malotype

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Mottleheaded

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Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Anecdoche

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Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench