Dorgone

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Dorgone

adj.
wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation without anyone noticing your absence.

Old Norse dár, benumbed + forgone, to have already left or abstained. Pronounced “dohr-gon.”

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Anecdoche

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Adronitis

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Nachlophobia

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Routwash

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Chrysalism

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