Anderance

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Anderance

n.
the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally different angle than you—spending years looking at a different face across the table, listening for cues in a different voice—an odd reminder that no matter how much you have in common, you’re still in love with different people.

Dutch ander, another person, someone else. Pronounced “an-der-uhns.”

Fensiveness

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Rivener

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The Mcfly Effect

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Lilo

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Skidding

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Sitheless

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Midding

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Etherness

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Fawtle

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Suente

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Ecstatic Shock

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Dolonia

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Mornden

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Dolorblindness

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Drisson

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Waldosia

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Incidental Contact High

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Dorgone

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Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Keep

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Leidenfreude

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Harmonoia

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Monachopsis

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Redesis

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Agnosthesia

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Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person