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.

Angosis

a table full of food

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Heartworm

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Gaudia Civis

a close-up of a gear

Mahpiohanzia

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