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'Look at that big smile!'

DEFINITION: v. To have difficulty recognizing, and correctly interpreting, human facial expressions. n. A person who cannot read faces.

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Wroxpression

Created by: grahaff

Pronunciation: rox presh in

Sentence: The man was such a wroxpression. Whenever he saw someone giggling he would say to them, "What is wrong."

Etymology: wrong (not correct or true) + expression (the look on someone's face that conveys a particular emotion)

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Malfacioread

Created by: duchessella

Pronunciation: mal-FA-ci-o-reed

Sentence: He keeps malfacioireading people and hence giving wrong responses; that is embarrassing.

Etymology: Mal = wrong, bad, mistake Facio = facial Read = read, interpret, understand (as in palm-reading)

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Spragnolen

Created by: 711881

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Struggrin

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: STRUG-grin

Sentence: Ever since half our team got put on Prozac, I've been struggrin to figger out whether someone is actually smiling, or just reacting to his altered brain chemistry.

Etymology: struggle, grin

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Disfacadiology

zrotv

Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: dis - fa- say -de -ol -i -gee

Sentence: I thought I knew what the smile meant, but I suffer from disfacadiology. (Also: I am disfacadilogical)

Etymology: dis + facade + ology

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Adoubtface

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: a dowt fayss

Sentence: Pinky had always thought she was a visagenist, someone who could read faces and know what people were thinking. That was until she met Bruno. It did not help that Pinky had little control over her own facial expressions. What he interpreted as amourous curiosity on her part, was actually a look of constipation. His leer at her was actually gas pains from the chili he had eaten earlier. Her adoubtface would end in them enjoying a bottle of Pepto together later.

Etymology: A Doubt (a lack confidence in or have doubts about;an uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something;the state of being unsure of something)& Face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; the expression on a person's face;status in the eyes of others) & play on word About-face (change one's mind and assume the opposite viewpoint;a reversal in attitude or principle or point of view;act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation)

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Expressinsensitive

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ikspreshinsensitiv

Sentence: Spock is so focused on logic that he often puzzled by human emotion. He can be expressinsensitive.

Etymology: expression (the look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion) + insensitive (showing or feeling no concern for others’ feelings)

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Mismugamy

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: miss/mug/amee

Sentence: Mismugamy is the failure to note the true meanings of facial expressions.

Etymology: miss + mug + amy

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Sneermiss

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: sneer-MIHS

Sentence: Alex sneermissed the girl in the bar, and left befuddled as to why he was drenched in mojito.

Etymology: sneer + miss (to rhyme with near-miss--in this case, it is literally nearly a miss, whereas "near-miss" usually means "near-hit".)

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Misblunderstand

Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Miss-blun-der-stand

Sentence: No wonder Greg never got a girlfriend, whenever he approached a girl he fancied with one of his cheesy chat-up lines, he would completely misblunderstand that a cringe meant 'GO AWAY' and not a smile and a green light to carry on.

Etymology: Blunder (a mistake + Misunderstand (fail to understand correctly) = Misblunderstand

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COMMENTS:

Very good! - Mustang, 2008-07-09: 07:10:00

Love it...will use it myself! - Nosila, 2008-07-09: 20:43:00

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-09: 02:26:00
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "I, Row-Boat", where a sentient, and very sensitive Row-Boat has some difficulty reading a woman's facial expressions. See the full story in Overclocked. Thank you Cory! ~ James

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-09: 02:49:00
MIENBLIND is very good- and far more cerebral than my entry. Good work, Ozziebob.

MaybeLater_x - 2008-08-19: 19:10:00
Visagenary is also a play on Imaginary, nay?

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-25: 00:48:00
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James

ldikarev - 2012-09-06: 16:44:00

ldikarev - 2012-09-06: 16:45:00
Prosopagnosia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing") is a disorder of fa