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cringe complex

a term to describe a negative thought process that causes you to stop doing anything due to the fear of cringe. This irrational fear can stop you from doing anything productive and can create personal mental barriers.
e.g. you don't want to talk to your family about your feelings because you feel it would be "cringe" which would then mean that you would avoid talking to your family about your feelings. A cringe complex usually causes a person to be depressed about their situation and not feel like certain options are ACTUAL options due to the fear of being cringe.
i can't be open with my family or friends because of the cringe complex I've created in my head.
by Lenny Confetti July 10, 2019
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Cringe.org

A teenage piece of shit who whines over 20 piece McDonald’s chicken nuggets, is a massive hypocrite, does horrible things such as make sexual and inappropriate jokes on YouTube, and has a fan base of 4 year olds.
Person: man this girl is so cringe!
7 year old: don’t u talk bout my favorite YouTuber like that! Cringe.org is amazing!
Person: Ew are u a fucking fan of her?
by The wabajack July 19, 2023
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breathless cries

The point where you're cries and sobs have built up inside of you for so long; it's all you hear most of the time, all you hear are your constant sobs and cries for help and you cry more because no one listens; they're oblivious.

Those cries that you let out, seem to be so normal to you now. You cry so constantly, that it isn't anything new.

Now, those constant cries are nothing. You've heard yourself cry for those many times you didn't want to hear yourself. You didn't want to hear your weakness collide into sadness and desperation for love and from loss and from anything to everything to nothing to something.

You cry now, and it's nothing, because you can hear yourself cry, but at the same time, you can't; they're breathless cries; cries that are there and you seem to hear but are tired of hearing.
"I cry breathless cries in the form of desperation and loss and sadness and everything; I hear them, my cries, but, I don't anymore."
by unfathomable November 5, 2013
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William Criag

Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. He is best known for his debates against atheists, and for his ministry, Reasonable Faith
The William Criag vs Sean Carroll debate was a interesting and deep discussion of God and modern cosmology.
by ThatOneUrbanDictionaryGuy October 21, 2020
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Boo Cringe

Something that is equal parts frightening and cringe worthy.
Oh my gosh, Janice showed me her toe socks
“Woah, that’s so boo cringe”
by Smelllie November 19, 2022
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cringe

1. v. cringe - to recoil in embarrassment
2. n. cringe - an instance of recoiling in embarrassment

Modern usage stems from its popularity among uncreative Zoomers circa 2013 who continue employ it as a banal and inane pejorative in virtual discourse when they feel threatened by media, memes, or posts that 1. break convention as defined by their narrow social experience in an arbitrary microcosm of internet culture 2. exceed their puerile comprehension in complexity or length or 3. induce even the slightest sense of insecurity for which they cannot muster a lazy conditioned riposte.

In this regard, the word has come to mean "An expression of pious and empty derision toward another person's thoughts, actions, or beliefs that (without discussion) implies ones own beliefs are normative and therefore superior."
Example 1 - laziness is normative
Person 1: *posts comment exceeding 500 characters*
Person 2: *reads in entirety* "cringe, didn't read"

Example 2: intransigence is normative
Person 1: "I disagree with your opinion"
Person 2: "cringe"

Example 3: ones personal tastes are normative
Person 1: "I really enjoyed that movie"
Person 2: "ugh, cringe"
by CheatsaPizza March 3, 2021
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criery

A diary or journal used mainly for crying about your day and how people treat you, because you are sad and lonely.
Dear Criery, it happened again...nobody came to my birthday party at the local public park. It was just me and the homeless people. Maybe next year?

I went home and wrote two pages in my criery at lunch today.
by Derk Ernesto June 26, 2014
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