TFC Characters As Unique/Interesting Words

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Dan:  Cynosure (n.) – A focal point of admiration.

Kevin:  Claptrap (n.) – Pretentious but insincere or empty.

Andrew:  Alexithymia (n.) – Inability to describe emotions verbally.

Matt: 

Petrichor (n.) – The pleasant smell of earth after rain.

Aaron:  Inure (v.) – To become jaded.

Seth:  Liberosis (n.) – The desire to care less about things.

Allison:  Glamour (n.) – Beauty.

Renee:  Apricity (n.) – The warmth of the sun in winter.

Nicky:  Hiraeth (n.) – A homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.

Neil: 

Drapetomania (n.) – An overwhelming urge to run away.

Riko:  Backpfeifengesicht (n.) – A person who needs to be slapped; lit. “a face that needs a fist in it”.

Jean:

Énouement (n.) – The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.


Wymack:

Kintsukuroi (n)(v. phr.) – “To repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with fold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

Abby:  Redamancy (n.) – act of loving in return.

Betsy:  Nepenthe (n.) – Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.

Jeremy:  Komorebi (n.) – Sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees.