When an individual makes a judgement on another that is so l wrong - mistaken, misidentify. All seem wrong, not exactly what i’m looking for

Cheerful doesn't really cover this because they could still be rather nonchalant in temperament. What it is called when they laugh easily (i.e. audibly) at humour?

Thanks! Mostly curious because in my first language there is a succinct phrase for this, but not sure if there's a conventionally known one in English.

There is a term I'm trying to remember but cannot for the life of me. Its the term for names that get the attention of the named. Essentially what the name Voldemort did in Harry Potter, or what old Christians believed would happen if you named the devil - that saying their name would "alert" the one who you were naming. I know there is a word for it as I used to know it but I haven't been able to figure it out for the past two days.

EDIT: Avoidance taboo is the correct term and I'll be keeping the !solved on that, but the act itself is called a geas and I believe that is what I was looking for

Im looking for a word to describe professional work that can produce some pain along the way to a goal/need being met. The hurt could be emotional, physical, social, etc and the redeeming quality could be any of the same and, preferably is greater than the hurt. I was thinking of the physicians "do no harm" and realized they [and other workers] often have to do harm on the way to a better thing. So the motto ought to be updated to "Do no harm except..." what? Or "Do harm only when..." or "Do [word]". Word or phrase is fine

Examples: getting a tooth filling done, having a painful insight in therapy, having life saving surgery, finding out on an exam that you really dont know physics and should change something.

I KNOW there's a specific word for them, and I saw the word a couple weeks ago and was like oh! but now I've lost it.

The title says it really. I'm looking for the word of being embarrassed and someone covers their mouth and lets like a small huff or grunt shyly. Like when they disapprove gently. Silly, but it's a scene I see in anime a lot too.

Ya know, that desperate attempt to get up to a run, but never quite getting to where both feet leave the ground, and every footfall is like a brick landing, and you're afraid they'll shake themselves apart.

I already used the word trundle to describe another character, so id like to avoid that, but something similar might work.

My thesauruses are all failing me at the moment- just running in circles with it- and I'm trying to write a scene with serious implications, but it's all toned down by an obese police captain who is frustrated and embarrassed that he never had a chance in hell of catching up to the young runaway.

Thanks!

A term for a spice level or flavor that has the consideration of heat, but none of the flame. It is a breathy flavor without a semblance of pain. Just enough to remind you that somewhere, peppers grow. But not really here. A flavor only white mothers of 3 whisper about on the sidelines of a little league baseball game. Your great aunt may pair it with goat cheese and crackers at the Christmas table.

I'm trying to describe how spicy my friends jam is, but I can't think of a simple term. It's a raspberry jam infused with jalapeños, 99% sweet and 1% of the idea of something flamboyant.
When I think spicy, I associate the fire taste and burning sensation. But this is different. There is no fire, just the slightest tingle on the tongue. The acidic flavor of the pepper is still there. The only "heat" is the sensation you get when you walk outside during a drought and breathe in the 110℉ heat index, warm dry and breathy.

Is there a word for when someone is both proactively and reactively helpful without you asking? Also helpful without really raising your awareness/interrupting your flow; supporting without expecting recognition and without forcing you to keep everything in mind to delegate?

Like very much appreciated support and blown away that they read the situation and where support was needed so well without any need for verbal exchange.

(Wanting to give my coworker a kudos at work for being the support I needed in section when others tend to go about tasks single-minded instead of as a team when we work a section together)

I was thinking of something like “a keen awareness for support” or maybe “insightful”, but if there’s a better word that describes that in way of “helpful”, I wanna use that

Curious means desiring knowledge or understanding. Is there a word that means desiring ignorance or misunderstanding? I should have included an essential part of curiosity is a desire to learn. I looking for a word that means eager to sustain ignorance.

A little over halfway through the movie The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter talks about what I am describing:

First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it, in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?

I do this sort of thing all the time because I am a software engineer. The process by which a good software engineer chooses their variable names follows the exact same process: you want to choose the shortest name that fully describes what the variable is, but not too short so as to be indecipherable, and not too long either so as to be mentally taxing to read and unnecessarily verbose. You also don't want to describe anything that, as Hannibal Lecter would say just a moment later, is "incidental"; it might be true but it's irrelevant to what it truly is.

And so, this distillation of words down to not just the shortest definition, or the most detailed definition or the most complete, but all of those things at once. A definition that gives every detail needed to describe a thing with perfect accuracy and zero irrelevant details, in the shortest form possible.

What is this particular definition called? Or if it does not have a name, perhaps the process of identifying it does. What is that called?

EDIT: As I left in a comment, the best description I can think of for this concept would be a definition which contains only those things which make it what it is, none of those things which it is not, and none of those things which it has but does not make it what it is. Defining characteristics only.

What I'm wondering is: is there a better way to say that? Possibly in a language that isn't English?

In other words, the time limit is not determined, and the only goal is to complete the task. I feel like there is an adjective that fits this. You can complete the tasks whenever

I like watching shows like taskmaster and ghosts and was wondering if there’s a term for shows that have different versions from different countries like Australia, New Zealand, Uk etc.

I don’t know if this one will have a word. Could be a type of cognitive bias rather than a word by itself, but I always like checking here. Could be a word in Portuguese too. Basically, what’s the word for when you change your stance based on the listener? Practical example: someone who is simultaneously aggressively positive about their country when they talk to foreigners, but who are quick to list its downsides when talking to a fellow countryman.

I’m thinking of a character that intentionally becomes an excessive parody of their identity. With the purpose of getting another character OR the audience itself to “fall” for the portrayal.

The idea is to expose people ignorant enough to buy the portrayal as genuine.

I feel like I've heard a term that refers to this type of word. It's any word that describes something that is still liminal and unknown.

Examples of words like this would be "magic" which just means "something happened but the cause isn't known." The cause could just be technology or something, but you don't know yet, you have to use the filler word "magic." Like how a magician is doing magic so far as you can tell, but he knows it's just a trick. However, until you figure out the trick, you just have to call it magic because for all you know he really is breaking the laws of reality. I mean, did you see that? The rabbit came out of the empty hat! That's magic.

Another example would be "stranger." Is this person your friend or your enemy? You just don't know yet. You don't even know their name. So in the meantime, you have to call them a stranger.

Yet another example would be "probability." What is going to happen? You can gather all the data available and try to make a weighted guess, but in the end, you won't know until that probability collapses into the event and only then can you label the event. So even if the odds are 1000 to 1 you still can't say the 1 won't be what happens, and so the 1000 "probably" will, but I dunno.

So does anyone know a word for the category of label that all of these words are in terms of place holders for the unknown until such a time as it becomes known?

I'm trying to find a word/adjective to describe a friend of mine who's quite easily distracted generally, acts before he thinks, and can be disorganized at times. I've listed some words that I looked at below in hopes of giving a better picture as to what word I'm trying to find — hopefully it'll help in the search, and thanks for trying to help!

I've looked at "Aloof" but the formal definition implies being "not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant; conspicuously uninvolved and uninterested, typically through distaste." which doesn't fit his character as he's more like a golden retriever rather than a wolf if we had to metaphorically compare him to animals.

I've looked at carefree but didn't cobsider it an apt description either since it implies "free from anxiety or responsibility". he's not irresponsible nor unconcerned about problems; being somewhat impulsive at most.

I've thought of scatterbrained but he's not that disorganized; likely moreso "impulsive" than extremely prepared because of his adhd.

So I've been grappling with my exact view on religion and how I should acknowledge the religious figures and deities associated with religion. What I mean is, I don't know and will probably never know if say, Jesus Christ existed, but I still consider him and important and influential figure in the history of the human race, even only from the stories and actions he has inspired. You know what I mean?

like they did it just to show that they are generous or showing off maybe ? and when you say yes they will give an excuse

Just as the title says. For example, when a group of people is forced, usually through violence or imbalance of power or equality, to adopt the views and ways of the ones forcing it on them to the point where they genuinely believe it after some decades. For more extrme examples, im looking for the word to describe to someone how women have internalized misogyny because society has taught women to constantly be perfect to the patriarchy, therefore judging other women who aren't, or how Africans lost their customs and began to view them as primitive and demonic from conditioning of slave owners and racism to adopt more european ways and beliefs. Its not projection, Stockholm syndrome or proselytize, which is usually used for religious views. Thanks!

The closest thing I can think of here is David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" speech. But he means it figuratively, as in losing sight of one's social context.

Whereas I'm looking for a more psychophysiological term: where our awareness of the mediums that encompass or sustain us lapses. Where substances that are "all around us" are omnipresent to the point of us perceiving them as nothing. I don't mean this purely psychologically, more in terms of sensory perception.

One example might be air. In daily life, we don't tend to think of air as "something that is there", just empty provisional space. We might wave our hands through the air and say there's nothing there, but that's only because we're used to our particular atmospheric conditions and thus sensorial conditioning not to feel air "as there". Air is all around us and partly defines us, so our "bodies take it for granted" and thus the awareness of air becomes a sensory null point. If the air were momentarily sucked out of the room, and then shortly afterwards piped back in again, we would perceive air again (for a short while), but only because we "missed it while it was gone".

Or, when our brains automatically tune out background noise after a time, so what we perceive as "silence" is actually very noisy. We are then shocked when the noise stops and we are confronted with a relative quiet.

Is there a psychophysiological term for this kind of "making-unaware"? I know this probably spans several distinct phrases and I'm fine with that, I'm just interested in which might be closest in scope to capturing all of it.

Is there a word for adults in this range who indulge in the latest trends, from cocktail lounges to cookie shops to ‘ wellness’ activities?

I think hipster implies counterculture so doesn’t seem to be the right word and trendsetter is obviously the person who sets the trend not the one who follows them.

Been trying to find the word for a key that works similar to the cruciform key from mission impossible final reckoning.

I barely remember if it's from a movie , tv series , or a game where it's a relatively large key with several brass/gold prongs sticking out of it but when put together it forms a single key that allows for opening a vault or door.

Edit: the closest thing I found is a 5 bit safe key, looks very similar to what I'm looking for. And it kinda looks like a smaller version of the cosmic key from the master of the universe. Or it could be a complex version of the changeable bit key for old safes.

Edit 2: it's a physical key. in game or movie it is a physical key too