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.

Ecstatic Shock

Immerensis

Lackout

Soufrise

Attriage

Redesis

Antiophobia

Hickering

Sitheless

Dolonia

Dolorblindness

Querinous

Flashover

Fensiveness

Fawtle

Nachlophobia

Feresy

Los Vidados

Momophobia

Thrapt

Maugry

Indosentia

Fensiveness

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Covalent Bond

Dolonia