Kinchy

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Kinchy

adj.
feeling guilty that you care about your own petty concerns more deeply than faraway cataclysms—that a family spat hurts more than a civil war, that a three-day fever hits you harder than climate change.

Japanese 近視 (kinshi), near-sightedness. A word just shy of kinship. Pronounced “kin-chee.”

Idlewild

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Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street

Rubatosis

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Kairosclerosis

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Fata Organa

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Ledsome

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