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Kinchykin-chee

adj. Feeling guilty that you care about your own petty concerns more deeply than faraway cataclysms--that a family spat hurts more than a civil war, that a three-day fever hits you harder than climate change.

Etymology

Japanese iii (Rinshi), near-sightedness. A word just shy of kinship.

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