Hemeisis

Hemeisis

n.
the off-putting awareness of how deeply your culture’s norms are ingrained in your psyche—arbitrarily defining what you find shameful and admirable, private and communal, attractive and repulsive, fair and unfair—as if you’d been programmed in a way that you can’t control or even perceive, until you happen to encounter someone who has slightly different code.

Ancient Greek ἡμεῖς (hēmeîs), we (excluding the listener). Pronounced “hem-ey-sis.”

Covalent Bond

Aftergloom

Star-Stuck

Scrough

Monachopsis

Hailbound

Tillid

Siso

Wenbane

Heartmoor

Adronitis

Anecdoche

Burn Upon Reentry

Ludiosis

Catoptric Tristesse

Kinchy

The Unsharp Mask

Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

Inerrata

The Mcfly Effect

Énouement

Skidding

Rasque

Elsing

Yeorie

Fellchaser

Affogatia