• A friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if no time had passed since you last saw each other.

  • Coined in 2012 by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a project, to create a compendium of invented words for every emotion we might all experience but don’t yet have a word for.
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