Lackout

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Lackout

n.
the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the same voice that once triggered a cocktail of emotions now evokes nothing at all—as if your brain had returned the last box of their things and your heart had quietly changed its locks.

From lack, missing something + blackout, when a spark abruptly goes away.

Waldosia

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Ecstatic Shock

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Soufrise

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Incidental Contact High

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Thrapt

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Etherness

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Los Vidados

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Nachlophobia

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Midding

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Lilo

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Ochisia

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La Gaudière

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Heartworm

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Hubilance

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Rivener

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Drisson

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Suente

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Lackout

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Heartmoor

a campfire with a kettle many small logs

Fata Organa

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Kairosclerosis

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Vicarous

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Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face