Midding

Midding

n.
the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it— hovering on the perimeter of a campfire, talking quietly outside a party, resting your eyes in the back seat of a car listening to friends chatting up front—feeling blissfully invisible yet still fully included, safe in the knowledge that everyone is together and everyone is okay, with all the thrill of being there without the burden of having to be.

Middle English midding, alternate spelling of midden, a refuse heap that sits near a dwelling. Pronounced “mid-ing.”

Ecstatic Shock

Immerensis

Lackout

Soufrise

Attriage

Redesis

Antiophobia

Hickering

Sitheless

Dolonia

Dolorblindness

Querinous

Flashover

Fensiveness

Fawtle

Nachlophobia

Feresy

Los Vidados

Pâro

Hiddled

Redesis

Povism

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Catoptric Tristesse

Volander

Vulture Shock