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.”

Fawtle

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Lilo

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Skidding

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Watashiato

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Zverism

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Bye-Over

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Amoransia

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Fensiveness

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Soufrise

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Hickering

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Thrapt

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On Tenderhooks

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Suente

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Rivener

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La Gaudière

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Hubilance

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Semaphorism

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The Mcfly Effect

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Heartworm

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Kuebiko

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Malotype

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The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Harmonoia

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Lilo

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Agnosthesia

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