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the shock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your mental image of them had fallen wildly out of date—having grown up or gotten old, fallen apart or pulled themselves together—which shakes your faith in the accuracy of the social puppet show that runs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

Midding

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Incidental Contact High

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Sitheless

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Waldosia

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Lackout

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Fardle-Din

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Querinous

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Redesis

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Ecstatic Shock

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Fata Organa

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Feresy

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Fensiveness

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Moledro

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Nachlophobia

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Thrapt

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Foilsick

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Fawtle

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Flashover

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Antiophobia

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Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Ringlorn

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Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Insoucism

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Fygophobia

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Anti-Aliasing

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Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass