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"Licotic:adj.Anxiously excited to introduce a friend to something you think is amazing, a classic album, a favorite restaurant, a TV show they're lucky enough to watch for the very first time. Which prompts you to continually poll their face waiting for the inevitable rush of awe, only to cringe when you discover all the work was shining through for the very first time.'Old English licode, it pleased you + psychotic"
— Sep 01, 2026 01:27AM
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"Harmonía: n. An itchy sense of dread when life feels just a hint too peaceful. When everyone seems to get along suspiciously well, with an eerie stillness that makes you want to brace for the inevitable collapse, or burn it down yourself. From harmony+paranoia."
— Sep 11, 2026 01:13AM
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"Ghough: n. A hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled, a bottomless hunger for more food, more praise, more attention, more affection, more joy, more sex, more money, more hours of sunshine, more years of your life; a state of panic that everything good will be taken from you too early, which makes you want to swallow the world before it ends up swallowing you."
— Sep 09, 2026 01:36AM
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"Idlewild: adj. Feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can't do much of anything, sitting for hours at an airport gate, the sleeper car of a train, or the backseat of a van on a long road trip. Which temporarily alleviates the burden of being able to do anything at any time and frees up your brain to do whatever it wants to do, even if it's just to icker your eyes across the passing landscape."
— Sep 02, 2026 01:20AM
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"trumspringa: n. The longing to wander your career track in pursuit of a simple life. Tending a small farm in a forest clearing, keeping a lighthouse on a secluded atoll, or becoming a shepherd in the mountains. Which is just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city."
— Aug 27, 2026 01:21AM
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"Chrysalism (n): the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. Latin chrysalis, the pups of a buttery"
— Aug 26, 2026 01:30AM
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"Sonder: the realization that each random passerby is the main character of their own story, in which you are just an extra in the background"
— Aug 24, 2026 01:53AM