Mamihlapinatapai
- “longest word for a shared look”
- “mamihlapinatapai meaning”
- “is mamihlapinatapai a real word”
- “most succinct word in the world”
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The famous glossvsThe morphology
The short answer
The honest core of the word is mutual awkwardness. The romance is a Victorian missionary's free translation that the internet promoted to a definition — which is a good reminder that 'untranslatable' sometimes means 'translated once, by one person, without checking'.
Side by side
| Aspect | The famous gloss | The morphology |
|---|---|---|
| Suggests | Unspoken romance | Mutual awkwardness |
| Source | A missionary | Morpheme analysis |
| In Bridges' dictionary | No | The parts, yes |
| Checkable | No | Partly |
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