Lockheartedness

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Lockheartedness

n.
the atmosphere of camaraderie when people are stuck together in a certain place—a stalled elevator, a shelter during a storm, the sleeper car of a train—which leaves them no other option but to be present with each other, with nowhere else to go, and nobody else to be.

From locked up + fullheartedness.

Ludiosis

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Siso

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Catoptric Tristesse

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Kenaway

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Tillid

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Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Ledsome

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Fygophobia

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Routwash

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Kinchy

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Kuebiko

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Anecdoche

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Aftergloom

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Anthrodynia

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Wytai

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Momophobia

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Falesia

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Nilous

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Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Heartmoor

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The Wends

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Boorance

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Amoransia

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Querinous

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Appriesse

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