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.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Nachlophobia

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Dolonia

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Moledro

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Midding

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Ecstatic Shock

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Dead Reckoning

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Drisson

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Anderance

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Feresy

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Fardle-Din

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The Kinder Surprise

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Incidental Contact High

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Mornden

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Redesis

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Antiophobia

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Dolorblindness

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Falesia

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Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Mcfeely

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Monachopsis

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Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Flashover

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The Wends

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Hobsmacked

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