Altschmerz

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Altschmerz

n.
a sense of weariness with the same old problems that you’ve always had, the same boring issues and anxieties you’ve been gnawing on for decades, which makes you want to spit them out and dig up some fresher pain you might have buried in your mental backyard.

German alt, old + Schmerz, pain. Pronounced “alt-shmerts.”

Desanté

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Fitching

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Apolytus

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Keep

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Loss Of Backing

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Altschmerz

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Maugry

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The Standard Blues

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Flichtish

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The Wends

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Insoucism

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Aesthosis

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Emodox

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Solysium

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Indosentia

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Vaucasy

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Typifice

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Aftergloom

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Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Ioia

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Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Loss Of Backing

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Fygophobia

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Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Kinchy

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Monachopsis

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