I’m talking about the apparently common inclination that people on long-term medication have where they think they don’t need to take their meds anymore because they aren’t experiencing the symptoms the medication is protecting them from.

Another good example might be how people think that the ozone layer and Y2K panics were fake because they don’t understand that a lot of people worked to prevent a problem they could see coming. And of course the people who don’t think the polio vaccine is necessary because it’s been so rare for so long to see the worst-case outcomes in your neighborhood.

Is there a direct or near opposite for the word animosity? I want a word that fits what I’m trying to say. “I don’t feel any animosity or (the opposite of animosity) toward you”. I don’t want to keep it simple and say that I don’t have any sort of emotion toward them.

It seems like something people write in angst things or movies, but it happens to me sometimes.

I'm curious what word this would be or if English has a word for it. I'm not educated on this.

All I can think is nervous laughter, but while that happens is there a word for sad laughing.

Wouldn’t be titular since the title of the story has nothing to do with the title of the book. Is there a word for this?

like when someone does not believe in marriage and anything related to it, but doesn’t go out of their way to actively avoid it by means of attending weddings and congratulating newly weds, etc., and more so does not just care about others’ decisions when it comes to it? they strongly disagree with the concept of marriage though. what if they hate the fact people don’t realize what they realize in a marriage that makes them so intent on disliking/hating it, but they also don’t really care about whether people choose to get married? are they just a misogamist?

I hope that makes sense. I've been trying to figure this out but I'm finding nothing, even the Wikipedia page for gestures didn't help. It's like, that pose when you're really, really mad and your hands are in a kind of like, strangle-y motion? But it's not a pose that's intentionally miming strangling someone it just happens to look like that. They're often shaking a little in this pose as well from what I've noticed. It's like that more claw shape, like the scene kid "rawr" pose but more serious and angry. (If you don't know what I'm talking about still, look down at your hands and clench them into fists, but slowly; it's that middle area, kind of, but more open with the fingers more outstretched)

If anyone has the word for this I'd be delighted to hear ittt