Fensiveness

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Fensiveness

n.
a knee-jerk territorial reaction when a friend displays a casual interest in one of your obsessions.

Mandarin 粉絲 (fěnsī), fan, admirer + defensiveness. Pronounced “fen-siv-nis.”

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Nachlophobia

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Dolonia

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Moledro

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Midding

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Ecstatic Shock

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Dead Reckoning

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Drisson

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Anderance

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Feresy

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Fardle-Din

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The Kinder Surprise

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Incidental Contact High

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Mornden

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Redesis

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Antiophobia

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Falesia

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Vellichor

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Indosentia

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Cullaways

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Fensiveness

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Irrition

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Hickering

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Moriturism

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Wenbane

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