Nullness

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Nullness

n.
a state of instinctive restlessness that arises when your society makes too many choices on your behalf—foreclosing all risks, codifying all moral dilemmas, deciding in advance whether you’ll succeed or fail—as if your conscience had been outsourced to an external provider, so it’s no longer necessary to have one on site.

From null, an empty set of values.

Xeno

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Dolorblindness

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Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Ringlorn

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Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke