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.

Vicarous

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Adomania

a person riding a horse

Desanté

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Gobo

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Rubatosis

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Thrapt

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