Flichtish

Flichtish

adj.
nervously aware how much of your self-image is based on untested assumptions about yourself—only ever guessing how you’d react to a violent threat, a sudden windfall, a huge responsibility, or being told to do something you knew was wrong.

North Frisian flicht, maybe. Pronounced “flik-tish.”

Fool’s Guilt

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Altschmerz

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Wellium

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Sayfish

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Flichtish

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Vicarous

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Trueholding

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Solysium

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1202

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Manusia

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Desanté

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Typifice

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Loss Of Backing

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Lyssamania

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Liberosis

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The Giltwrights

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Endzoned

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Viadne

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Foreclearing

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Fawtle

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Ironsick

a group of random devices

Lookaback

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Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Anechosis

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Burn Upon Reentry

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Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Plata Rasa

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