Malotype

Malotype

n.
a certain person who embodies all the things you like the least about yourself—a seeming caricature of your worst tendencies—which leaves you feeling repulsed and fascinated in equal measure, having stumbled upon a role model of exactly the kind of person you never want to be.

Latin malus, bad + typus, a kind of sculptor’s mold. A mold is essentially a negative image of the object you want to sculpt—so if you’re trying to shape yourself, perhaps a good first step is to scoop away the negative space. Pronounced “mal-uh-tahyp.”

Aesthosis

The Wends

Addleworth

Desanté

Vicarous

The Meantime

Typifice

Keep

Rubatosis

Indosentia

Bareleveling

Vaucasy

Malotype

Fitching

1202

Sayfish

Wellium

Apolytus

Appriesse

Chrysalism

Attriage

Dead Reckoning

Latigo

Ameneurosis

Symptomania

Occhiolism

Vulture Shock