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gnossienne

n. the awareness that someone you've known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life.

Borrowed from the title of a piano composition by Erik Satie; its etymology is a mystery but may refer to Greek gnosis, knowledge, or Knossos, the mythical setting of the Minotaur and the labyrinth. Pronounced "nos-yen."