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.”

Antiophobia

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Covalent Bond

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Lyssamania

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Nachlophobia

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Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road