Hiddled

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Hiddled

adj.
feeling the loneliness of having to keep a secret to yourself.

Old English hidil, hiding place. Pronounced “hid-ld.”

Deep Gut

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Nighthawk

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Proluctance

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Candling

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Symptomania

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Sayfish

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Rubatosis

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The Giltwrights

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Addleworth

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Vicarous

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Leidenfreude

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Endzoned

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Povism

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Fool’s Guilt

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Agnosthesia

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Lyssamania

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Wellium

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Hiddled

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Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Kinchy

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Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Fitzcarraldo

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Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Altschmerz

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Craxis

a tall house of cards