Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Nilous

adj.
anxious to imagine how many times you must’ve barely avoided catastrophe—the morning you missed the bus that later went on to crash, the day you stayed onshore when it was a bit too rough out there—which makes it feel like something of a fluke that you’ve survived this long, as if you’re on an unbroken streak of coin flips, heads after heads after heads, wondering when your luck is going to run out.

Old English nigh, almost + nihil, nothing. Pronounced “nahy-lis.”

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Ironsick

a group of random devices

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Arroia

people standing on a stage

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Indosentia

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Ringlorn

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Sitheless

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Mornden

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Anechosis

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Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Rückkehrunruhe

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Lockheartedness

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Rivener

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