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Mamihlapinatapaimah-mee-hlah-pee-nah-tah-pie

n. A silent acknowledgment and understanding between two people, who are both wishing or thinking the same thing (and are both unwilling to initiate). A word so difficult to spell, it aptly reflects the tangled and incomprehensible nature of this look. Fittingly, Yaghan is an indigenous language of distant Tierra del Fuego, Chile.

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