Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Aponemia

n.
the peculiar quality of never having chosen to be born, which is shared by everyone else around you; the curious awareness that even though earthly life might be the most exciting party in the universe, somehow everyone in attendance had been dragged here by a friend or stumbled in by accident.

Greek απονέμω (aponémo), to bestow. Pronounced “ap-uh-nee-mee-uh.”

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Caucic

a close-up of a stone walking path

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Ironsick

a group of random devices

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Angosis

a table full of food

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Hickering

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O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Momophobia

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Etherness

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The Standard Blues

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Mcfeely

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Rückkehrunruhe

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Agnosthesia

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Endzoned

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