Nementia

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Nementia

n.
the post-distraction effort to recall the reason you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, trying to retrace your sequence of thoughts like a kid gathering the string of a downed kite.

Ancient Greek νέμειν (némein), to give what is due + Latin dementia, without mind. Pronounced “ne-men-shuh.”

Nighthawk

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Rubatosis

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Insoucism

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Nementia

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Manusia

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Desanté

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Sayfish

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Aesthosis

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Trueholding

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Lyssamania

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Indosentia

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Tarrion

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Typifice

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Viadne

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Emodox

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The Wends

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Fitching

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Solysium

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Routwash

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Occhiolism

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The Giltwrights

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Harke

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Poggled

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Rivener

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Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

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Austice

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