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Dystoriadis-toh-ree-uh

n. A feeling of irrelevance from the broader forces of history; the sense that your life has no relationship to any great mission, no generational hardship, not even an enemy--feeling as harmless as a droplet skittering down a window, that could've just as easily taken part in a tidal wave.

Etymology

Latin dys-, bad + historia, history.

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