Ioia

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Ioia

n.
the wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you encounter—checking the signal strength of their compatibility, a measure of their trustworthiness, or even just an emoji that tells you how they’re really feeling.

From the two symbols of binary code, 1 and 0, denoting “on” or “off” + I am. Pronounced “ahy- yo-yuh.”

Desanté

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Symptomania

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Keep

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The Standard Blues

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Heartspur

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Aesthosis

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The Giltwrights

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Punt Kick

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Addleworth

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Sayfish

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Solysium

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The Wends

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1202

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The Meantime

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Insoucism

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Vicarous

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Proluctance

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Apolytus

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Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Watashiato

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Dolorblindness

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Zielschmerz

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Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Adronitis

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Wellium

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Thrapt

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