DEFINITION: To share greetings, hugs, and kisses with old friends and familiar faces, while you desperately try to remember their names.

Pretenderness

Created by: polarpanda

Pronunciation: pre-ten-der-ness (not PREE-ten-der-ness)

Sentence: Hey, honey, tell me your cousin Patrice's husband's name again-- he's headed over here, and I don't want all that awkward pretenderness when he leans in for a hug.

Etymology: pretend + tenderness

Points: 398

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