Typifice

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Typifice

n.
a caricature of yourself that went out of date years ago, though nobody around you seems to have noticed.

Italian tipi fissi, “fixed types,” the stock characters in commedia dell’arte masked improvisational theater. Pronounced “tip-uh-fis.”

Ameneurosis

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Scabulous

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Antiophobia

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Aubadoir

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Kenaway

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Incidental Contact High

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