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.”

Wildred

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Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Hanker Sore

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Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Heartspur

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