Looseleft

Looseleft

adj.

feeling a sense of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you’ve gotten to know so well.

From looseleaf, a removable sheet of paper + left, departed.

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Treachery Of The Common

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Kairosclerosis

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Merrenness

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Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Zielschmerz

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Aubadoir

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Elsewise

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Exulansis

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Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

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Fitzcarraldo

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The Til

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The Kick Drop

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RANDOM Words

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Feresy

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Lyssamania

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Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Amoransia

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Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Antiophobia

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