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わかりみ (wakarimi)

wa-ka-REE-meenounInformalOnline

A Japanese slang term. Browse all Japanese slang.

What it means

  1. Relatability; the quality of being something you deeply get. Usually in わかりみが深い — 'I feel that in my bones'.

Examples with translations

  • この漫画、わかりみが深い。

    This manga hits far too close to home.

  • わかりみしかない。

    Nothing but relatable.

Where it comes from

Built by a productive youth-slang pattern: take a verb or adjective stem and add -み to force it into a noun, as 尊い gives 尊み. Grammatically irregular by design — the joke is partly that it should not be a noun.

First attested: mid-2010s

Other forms

Romanised as:
wakarimi
Spellings and variants:
わかりみが深い