Foilsick

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Foilsick

adj.
feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone—allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice, your childlike vulnerability—wishing you could somehow take back the moment, discreetly bolting the door after a storm had already blown it off its hinges.

Scottish Gaelic foillsich, to expose.

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Justing

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Hubilance

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Fata Organa

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Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment