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zverism
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n. the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge the physical side of each other first—sniffing each other's hair like dogs, staring unabashedly at interesting faces, reveling in a beautiful voice like a song on the radio.
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Lithuanian žvėris, wild beat + Latin vērissimus, the truest, the realest. Pronounced "zvair-iz-uhm."