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I know this is a long shot... but.
In Portuguese mancómetro is a very useful word. It means a measure by which one knows, or does not know, how he/she is adversely affecting/relating to others/groups. The lower the number, the more out-of-reality this person would be.
Is there a similar expression in English, or any other language y'all're familiar with?
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Well, if there's *not a word for this, there should be. Surely there exists something along the lines of 'autosociometry'? but this would leave out the necessary component of specifically gauging the *negative affect that a person's presence and/or interactions have on the subject group and/or its entitativity (just learned that word through my search).i thought maybe there'd be a "-gnosis" word, but came up empty there too. i suppose "dysfunctional" sums the state nicely, but it certainly doesn't give even a nod to one's ability to self-measure same. how 'bout a neologism: autostigmagnosis [-ometer?) 
how does it literally translate? the "metro" part is obvious, but what does "manco" mean?
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When I saw it, I thought that mancómetro was a new name for a dirty underground system ...  Then I realised it would have to be "Manky Metro". Not the same at all, I do agree.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Wracking my brains for an English equivalent but without success. Is Mancómetro used in English? If not then I am with the others in adopting it. I'd love to know the correct usage, however.
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Mancómetro ... I'd love to know the correct usage
If any -- because as best I can tell, there is no such word.
It generates zero hits in google, and it doesn't appear in any of the four portuguese-english dictionaries I checked. [Oxford; Langenscheidt's, and the on-line translators of altavista and google] ASp, could you have misspelled? or perhaps hypothesized a concept, out of an amateur's interest in psychology?
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I think it possible that search of Internet for mancómetro yields nothing just means that the Brazilians haven't yet put much onto Internet. I'll bet they have many more clever phrases we haven't heard yet. I shudder to think what my mancómetro score might be.
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> I shudder to think what my mancómetro score might be.< Well, no, Doc...I think in your case the effect is quite the opposite! You just hide behind that curmudgeonly facade here, but you ain't foolin' nobody!  Now in the other case...well, you know what they say: "If the glove fits, wear it!"
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When I finally thought to search for "Brazil dictionary" I got one. But searching it for "mancómetro" yielded only: 1.manómetro
2.barómetro
3.manómetros
4.barómetros
5.marmelo
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To what "other case" are you referring, whit?
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