Nachlophobia

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Nachlophobia

n.
the fear that your deepest connections with people are ultimately pretty shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial in the moment, an audit of your life would reveal a smattering of low-interest holdings and uninvested windfall profits, which will indicate you were never really at risk of joy, sacrifice, or loss.

Greek αναχλός (anachlós), loosely held together + -φοβία (-phobía), fear. May also appear as apomakrysmenophobia. Pronounced “nok-luh-foh-bee-uh.”

Midding

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Trueholding

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Foilsick

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Semaphorism

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Nementia

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Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Typifice

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Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Idlewild

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Dystoria

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Achenia

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