Mottleheaded

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Mottleheaded

adj.
feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friends and family, or friends and colleagues, or colleagues and family—mixing a medley of ingredients that don’t typically go together, which risks either watering down your identity into gray mush, or accidentally triggering some sort of explosion.

From motley, comprising incongruous elements + headed. Pronounced “mot-l-hed-id.”

Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Indosentia

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Etherness

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Viadne

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