water that is polluted with pharmacutical drugs and/or over the counter drugs. As medicines pass thru someone's system, and the water is recycled, ALOT of drugs aren't checked for and pass on thru the tap, and also some bottled water (that comes from tap). Over 60 medicines have been found in water, including mood stabilizers, heart medicines, epilepsy medicine, sex hormones, and asthma medicine.

Briefly, "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Originally from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which has a lot more beautiful neologism definitions like this you might enjoy.