encapsulation into words

Has it happened to you that after you describe an experience in detail with a lot of passion carefully carving terms, your listener interrupts you in a matter of fact tone by saying: “you mean xyz?” One single term that describes it all and sums it all up? Does this mean you were immature, and have been re-inventing the wheel? The process you have been passionately describing and swimming in the thesaurus of words to try to express had been objectified while you were playing, into one single term in a current dictionary