A psychological term that does not exist, however, Rhoda Morgenstern bluffed Phyllis Lindstrom into believing it DID exist in a game of Scrabble. From an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." See also oxmersis
A portmanteau of the words "exam" and "cameraderie"; the feeling of comradeship created before a big exam when you speak to your classmates - especially those you've never said a word to before - and realise that you're all completely fucked for it.
Steve and Alicespoke to each other before the big test and experienced a feeling of exameraderie when they realised they were both going to bomb out.
An Exaversal civilization has ascended beyond the dichotomy of existence and non-existence. Its domain, the "Exaverse," encompasses all that is, all that is not, and all states in between (potential, impossible, imaginary). This civilization can manipulate paradoxical and impossible objects (like squared circles or stable universes where 2+2=5) by existing in a state that reconciles logical contradictions. Its power source is the ontological tension between being and nothingness.
Kardashev Type 14.0 Exaversal Civilizations *Example: The Living Tribunal of Marvel Comics, which judges entire multiverses, operates at a high level, but a Type 14.0 civilization would be the Courtroom, Law, and Judge for all possible Tribunals across all states of being and non-being. It could decree that a certain paradox shall exist simply because its nature allows it to hold mutually exclusive truths as valid.*
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”