Manusia

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Manusia

n.
the ambient feeling of being a human being; a baseline mood that everyone feels intensely every moment of their lives, but can never pin down because they have nothing else to compare it to.

Sanskrit manusyá, human being. Pronounced “muh-noo-zhuh” or “muh-noo-zee-uh.”

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Aesthosis

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Suente

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Solysium

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Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Covalent Bond

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Achenia

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

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

The Meantime

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Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Gobo

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