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a caricature of yourself that went out of date years ago, though nobody around you seems to have noticed.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

Lyssamania

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Endzoned

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Candling

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Wellium

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Elsing

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Fool’s Guilt

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Viadne

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Flichtish

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Hiddled

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Fitching

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Rubatosis

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Tarrion

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Nighthawk

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Bareleveling

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Vaucasy

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Ioia

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Typifice

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Povism

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Drisson

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Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Wellium

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Fata Organa

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Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Gaudia Civis

a close-up of a gear