Rückkehrunruhe

Rückkehrunruhe

n.
the feeling of returning from an immersive trip only to notice it fading rapidly from your awareness, as if your brain had automatically assumed it was all just a dream and already went to work scrubbing it from your memory.

German rückkehren, coming back + Unruhe, restlessness. Compare Zugunruhe, “migration restlessness,” the fidgety behavior observed in birds approaching migration. Pronounced “rook- kair-oon-roo-uh.”

Merrenness

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Looseleft

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Harmonoia

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Justing

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The Til

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Slipfast

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La Cuna

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Treachery Of The Common

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Plata Rasa

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Idlewild

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Trumspringa

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Ghough

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Aubadoir

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Mahpiohanzia

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Gobo

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Licotic

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Foreclearing

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Exulansis

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Nighthawk

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Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Catoptric Tristesse

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Mcfeely

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Lookaback

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Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Licotic

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