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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: neologism, rare, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Pseudo-Germanism, derived from Mauer (“wall”) + Bauer (“builder”) + Traurigkeit (“sorrow”). Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
