exulansis ek-soo-lan-sis

The inclination not to talk about an experience because you feel people can’t relate to it.

You can likely come up with your own personal examples of life events, etc., that have shaped your thinking, but you believe others who have not experienced it just won’t be capable of understanding. Like clinical depression, for example, as opposed to simply feeling low. Or even real migraine headaches and how they’re not the same as ordinary ones.