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.”

Justing

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Gobo

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Scabulous

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Treachery Of The Common

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Aubadoir

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Exulansis

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Licotic

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Foreclearing

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Wildred

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Elsewise

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The Til

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Kairosclerosis

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Merrenness

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Volander

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Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Rückkehrunruhe

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Slipfast

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Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Feresy

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Fitching

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Waldosia

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Anechosis

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Incidental Contact High

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Rivener

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Arroia

people standing on a stage