YaghanChile

Mamihlapinatapai

/mah-mee-lah-pee-nah-tah-PIE/

A look shared between two people, each wishing the other would initiate something they both desire.

How It's Used

That moment of unspoken connection when both people want to act but neither does.

Emotion

Context

Pure life; a philosophy of simple living, positivity, and gratitude for life.

A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh.

The act of gradually stealing all the possessions of a neighbor by borrowing and not returning.