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.”

Ludiosis

Kinchy

Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men

Anti-Aliasing

Routwash

Hobsmacked

Xeno

Burn Upon Reentry

Holiette

Kuebiko

Catoptric Tristesse

Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Pâro

Siso

Anaphasia

Hailbound

Allope

Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Fitzcarraldo

Insoucism

Mcfeely

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Fitching

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Aftergloom

Idlewild

Skidding