Dictionary of Despair

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November 2020
Welcome to the Frightgeist
When fear is your constant companion...
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October 2020
April 2020
Poormanteau
A particularly weak or low-quality instance of a portmanteau, e.g. sticknorance, grammerage or manguage.
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January 2020
December 2019
Bubble of Obliviousness
Self-awareness is what separates us from the beasts. Is it possible that some people have so much self awareness that they have no awareness left for…
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Sticknorance
The absolute conviction of some individuals who feel that they have been dealt a poor hand by the universe, or often an emergent phenomenon of the…
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Precrastination
Relaxation Anxiety is a subtle and cunning subversion of sensible behavior. The inability to relax, combined with the lack of desire to undertake any…
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August 2019
BA
See Battery Anxiety
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Residual Parental Guilt
You do your best to raise them and then send them out into the world, knowing that you have done all that you possibly can to prepare them. Right…
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Litmus of Limitation
We all generally feel that we are locked at some notional age, perhaps in our early twenties, but how does one establish when youth has decided to sneak…
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