Incidental Contact High

Incidental Contact High

n.
an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job—a barber, yoga instructor, or friendly waitress—that you find more meaningful than you’d like to admit; a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple it makes you wonder if aspiring novelists would be better off just offering people a hug.

In sports, incidental contact is a glancing touch that doesn’t rise to the level of a foul. A contact high is when you feel the effects of a drug vicariously.

Heartworm

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

Fardle-Din

Dorgone

Fata Organa

Feresy

Ecstatic Shock

Los Vidados

Mornden

Sitheless

On Tenderhooks

Hanker Sore

Attriage

Dolorblindness

Hubilance

Ochisia

Fawtle

Thrapt

Kairosclerosis

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Flashover

Rivener

Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Aftergloom

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table