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.

Nullness

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Amuse-Douche

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Momophobia

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Anaphasia

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Burn Upon Reentry

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Adronitis

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Hemeisis

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Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Hobsmacked

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Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Hailbound

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Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Fawtle

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Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Leidenfreude

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Fitching

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Licotic

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Anecdoche

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Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape