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.”

Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Hobsmacked

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Burn Upon Reentry

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Covalent Bond

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Pâro

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Nullness

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Xeno

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Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

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Latigo

aerial view of a city at night

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

On Tenderhooks

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The Mcfly Effect

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Justing

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Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Dolorblindness

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Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock