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.

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Incidental Contact High

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Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Leidenfreude

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Ameneurosis

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Viadne

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