Lookaback

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Lookaback

n.
the shock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your mental image of them had fallen wildly out of date—having grown up or gotten old, fallen apart or pulled themselves together—which shakes your faith in the accuracy of the social puppet show that runs continuously inside your head.

From look back + taken aback, taken by surprise.

Skidding

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Hanker Sore

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Anderance

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Los Vidados

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Flashover

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Moledro

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Querinous

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Mornden

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Rivener

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Hickering

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Lookaback

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Feresy

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Watashiato

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Dorgone

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Foilsick

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Midding

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The Kinder Surprise

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Semaphorism

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Aftergloom

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Keta

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Trueholding

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Hubilance

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Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Momophobia

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Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Wenbane

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