Hobsmacked

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Hobsmacked

adj.
suddenly aware of how limited your social circles really are; that although your immediate environment feels like a microcosm of society, it’s more like a bag of exotic fish floating on the surface of a huge aquarium, which is teeming with a million shadowy subcultures that you’d be stunned to see up close.

From hobnob, to mix socially + gobsmacked, astounded.

Semaphorism

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Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Occhiolism

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Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Trumspringa

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