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.

Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Hobsmacked

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Burn Upon Reentry

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Covalent Bond

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Pâro

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Nullness

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Xeno

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Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

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Latigo

aerial view of a city at night

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Angosis

a table full of food

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Wytai

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Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

The Wends

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Adomania

a person riding a horse

Fata Organa

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Querinous

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