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Kenawayken-uh-wey

n. The longing to see how other people live their lives when they're not in public; wishing you could tune in to the raw feed of another human existence, in all its messiness and solitude--shimmying in place while brushing their teeth, squabbling over where to put the shoes, talking out their problems on solitary commutes --if only to give you something to compare your own life against, and figure out whether you're bizarrely normal or normally bizarre.

Etymology

From ken, one’s range of knowledge + keep-away, a game in which one player tries to intercept a ball being tossed back and forth by two others. Pronounced “ken-uh-wey.”

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