Rubatosis

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Rubatosis

n.
the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, as if to casually remind the outside world, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here.

In music, tempo rubato, “stolen time,” is a slight speeding up and slowing down of the tempo of a piece, borrowing time from one measure then paying it back later. Pronounced “roo-bah-toh-sis.”

Leidenfreude

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Hiddled

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Candling

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Rubatosis

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Agnosthesia

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Bareleveling

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Apolytus

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Povism

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Tarrion

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Ioia

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The Standard Blues

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Heartspur

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Aesthosis

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Punt Kick

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Indosentia

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Elsing

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Nighthawk

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Proluctance

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Keyframe

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Amuse-Douche

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Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Maugry

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Gaudia Civis

a close-up of a gear

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Foilsick

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