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Lockheartedness
n. The atmosphere of camaraderie when people are stuck together in a certain place--a stalled elevator, a shelter during a storm, the sleeper car of a train--which leaves them no other option but to be present with each other, with nowhere else to go, and nobody else to be.
Etymology
From locked up + fullheartedness.
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