Emodox

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Emodox

n.
someone whose mood is perpetually out of sync with everyone else around them, prone to feelings of naptime panic, heart-to-heart snark, or dance club pensiveness.

From emotional + dox, not conforming to expected norms. Pronounced “ee-moh-doks.”

Leidenfreude

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Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Ludiosis

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Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline