Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Dystoria

n.
a feeling of irrelevance from the broader forces of history; the sense that your life has no relationship to any great mission, no generational hardship, not even an enemy—feeling as harmless as a droplet skittering down a window, that could’ve just as easily taken part in a tidal wave.

Latin dys-, bad + historia, history. Pronounced “dis-toh-ree-uh.”

Slipfast

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Ledsome

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Justing

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Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine