Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Aponemia

n.
the peculiar quality of never having chosen to be born, which is shared by everyone else around you; the curious awareness that even though earthly life might be the most exciting party in the universe, somehow everyone in attendance had been dragged here by a friend or stumbled in by accident.

Greek απονέμω (aponémo), to bestow. Pronounced “ap-uh-nee-mee-uh.”

Kinchy

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Harmonoia

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Semaphorism

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Amuse-Douche

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Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room