Zverism

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Zverism

n.
the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge the physical side of each other first—sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly at interesting faces, reveling in a beautiful voice like a song on the radio.

Lithuanian žvėris, wild beast + Latin vērissimus, the truest, the realest. Pronounced “zvair-iz-uhm.”

Flichtish

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Wildred

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Plata Rasa

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Foilsick

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Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Idlewild

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