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.”

Ringlorn

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Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Elsewise

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Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt