The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

anthrodynia

n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.

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