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

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Mugmunge

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: mug-munje

Sentence: Marc was bad about mugmunging facial expressions and thinking that people were reacting favorably to his boring stories.

Etymology: mug (face) + munge (to imperfectly transform information i.e. "address munging")

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Figgliciocous

Created by: brandonmarrotte

Pronunciation: (Fig-gilo-cious)

Sentence: I am figgiloucious because I can not recognize facial expressions of my many wives.

Etymology: Fig-to see, Gillo- to misunderstand

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Misface

Created by: autophile

Pronunciation: miss-FACE

Sentence: Ever since Myron realized that he misfaced regularly in face-to-faces, his prefered interface space was the clean textual context of instant messaging.

Etymology: "Mis-", prefix meaning bad, wrongly, failure, and "-face" from both "interface" and plain ol' "face".

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Misconflidiot

Created by: brucee10

Pronunciation: mis - con - fli - de - ot

Sentence: Jason is a misconflidiot if he thinks he has a chance with Gwen.

Etymology: Misconstrue + Flirting + Idiot

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COMMENTS:

That really refers to the individual who has the difficulty, but it still has an great ring to it! Nice one! - Jocoman, 2007-05-09: 21:41:00

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Wreckognize

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: rek - ug - niz

Sentence: To wreckognize is to not recognize.... Your ability to recognize someone's face or their expressions is ruined or destroyed. It does not mean that you are blind; but it probably does mean that you are not perceptive.

Etymology: wreck, recognize

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COMMENTS:

Love it - Nosila, 2009-11-25: 23:09:00

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Misinterprefacetion

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: mis-in-ter-pre-face-tion

Sentence: Jase was the king of misinterprefacetion, especially when it came to women. One day he thought he saw a "come hither" look on Miss Muffet's face and thought he might get lucky. In reality it was a look of horror because of a spider that sat down beside her (spiders creeped her out). So when he smiled at her she shivered and ran away, leaving him totally confused.

Etymology: misinterpretation: to interpret, explain or understand correctly + face

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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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Oblivopath

Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: oh-BLIV-o-path

Sentence: Only an oblivopath would think he looked happy about being kissed by her pet skunk.

Etymology: 'obliv' from oblivious + 'path' from the suffix of empath (one who actually has empathy or understanding of another's feelings) = one who is oblivious to the feelings of another as represented by their facial expressions.

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Unfacialable

Created by: Eequal5

Pronunciation: un-fase-y-al-able

Sentence: He is so unfacialalbe that he couldnt tell his mom was angry.

Etymology: un:not fac:face ial:Expression able:able

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Dissthwarted

Created by: geoamnesia

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Sentence: I can't really tell if they are laughing or smirking -- so my life is about feeling dissthwarted and pretending not to be.

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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