Dystoria

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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.”

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

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Deep Gut

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Soufrise

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Fata Organa

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Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Midsummer

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Attriage

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Anthrodynia

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Dead Reckoning

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