unspoken academentia
The collective, mutually understood condition in academic or intellectual spaces where everyone is clearly overthinking and losing their grip on reality, but no one explicitly acknowledges it.
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The collective, mutually understood condition in academic or intellectual spaces where everyone is clearly overthinking and losing their grip on reality, but no one explicitly acknowledges it. The shared ambient madness of institutional intellectualism that everyone pretends is normal.
The whole department meeting ran on unspoken academentia — everyone nodding at jargon nobody could define.
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