Latigo

a blurry image of several men

Latigo

n.
a dizzying sense of awe at the sheer scale of modern society—looking out at a city so vast and complex it can barely be mapped, with millions of miles of roads and power lines and water mains that must be continually repaired and replaced every few years, feeding a labyrinth of supply chains and regulations and contracts and algorithms—a system so massive that individual people seem almost beside the point, that if everybody were to vanish all at once, the city would sigh and carry on its business.

From labyrinth, a maze of tortuous complexity + vertigo, the whirling sensation of looking down from great heights. Compare Spanish látigo, whip. Pronounced “lat-i-goh.”

Momophobia

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Pax Latrina

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Anaphasia

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Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Wytai

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Nullness

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Adronitis

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Amuse-Douche

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Ledsome

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Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Lockheartedness

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Monachopsis

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Aftergloom

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Hailbound

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Covalent Bond

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Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Harmonoia

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Foilsick

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Redesis

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Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Wellium

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Ecstatic Shock

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Elsing

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Fensiveness

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