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.”

Fitching

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Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Fata Organa

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Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face