Etymology

chuunibyou

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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 →

Japanese 中二病
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from中二病
  2. English todaychuunibyou

Borrowed from Japanese 中二病 (chūnibyō, literally “middle school second-year syndrome”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.