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.

Fawtle

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Lilo

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Skidding

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Watashiato

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Zverism

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Bye-Over

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Amoransia

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Fensiveness

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Soufrise

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Hickering

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Thrapt

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On Tenderhooks

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Suente

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Rivener

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La Gaudière

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Hubilance

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Semaphorism

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The Mcfly Effect

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La Gaudière

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Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Fool’s Guilt

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Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Kuebiko

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Siso

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