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The famous gloss vs The 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'.
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The famous gloss vs The morphology
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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In short Readers who land here meaning Mamihlapinatapai rather than The morphology are usually searching for phrases like “longest word for a shared look”, “mamihlapinatapai meaning”, “is mamihlapinatapai a real word”.
Mamihlapinatapai “longest word for a shared look” “mamihlapinatapai meaning” “is mamihlapinatapai a real word” “most succinct word in the world”