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- Japanese · borrowed from中二病
- English todaychuunibyou
Borrowed from Japanese 中二病 (chūnibyō, literally “middle school second-year syndrome”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The often edgy or pretentious behavior of early adolescents who want to stand out and who have convinced themselves they have hidden knowledge or secret powers, characterized as a sickness. Full definition →
Borrowed from Japanese 中二病 (chūnibyō, literally “middle school second-year syndrome”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.