Offtides

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Offtides

adj.
beginning to suspect that you’re living in a bizarre alternate reality, as if you had stumbled into a shimmering “What if?” thought bubble that somehow kept going, episode after episode.

After off, the state of being not quite normal or sane + offsides, a sports offense in which you find yourself on the wrong side at the wrong moment + tides, the normal ebb and flow of time.

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

Anechosis

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Fygophobia

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Aubadoir

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The Meantime

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Bareleveling

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Nullness

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Soufrise

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Kairosclerosis

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Zielschmerz

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