Suente

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Suente

n.
the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be in a room with them without thinking, without holding anything back, or without having to say a word—to the extent that you have to remind yourself that they’re a different being entirely, that brushing hair away from their eyes won’t help you see any better.

Southwest English dialect suent, easy, peaceful, smooth. Pronounced “soo-ent-ey.”

Los Vidados

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Thrapt

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Fardle-Din

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Falesia

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Nachlophobia

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La Gaudière

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Dead Reckoning

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Moledro

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Hickering

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Anderance

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Flashover

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Ochisia

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Fata Organa

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Hanker Sore

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Soufrise

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The Kinder Surprise

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Semaphorism

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Zverism

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Elsewise

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Agnosthesia

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Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Indosentia

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Aimonomia

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Anthrodynia

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Povism

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Allope

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Fellchaser

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