Ioia

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Ioia

n.
the wish that you could see statistics overlaid on every person you encounter—checking the signal strength of their compatibility, a measure of their trustworthiness, or even just an emoji that tells you how they’re really feeling.

From the two symbols of binary code, 1 and 0, denoting “on” or “off” + I am. Pronounced “ahy- yo-yuh.”

Desanté

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Fitching

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Apolytus

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Keep

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Loss Of Backing

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Altschmerz

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Maugry

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The Standard Blues

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Flichtish

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The Wends

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Insoucism

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Aesthosis

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Emodox

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Solysium

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Indosentia

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Vaucasy

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Typifice

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Ameneurosis

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Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Viadne

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Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Antiophobia

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Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter

Hailbound

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