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that sudden dreadful realization that you are you, and only you, and stuck in your body and you're not omniscient and the universe is filled with other people just like that but you still can't live their lives and they can't live yours.

"which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other peopleโ€™s passwords, each representing one more thing youโ€™ll never get to see before you die" - as taken from the dictionary of obscure sorrows.
"Oh damn. I'm...I'm me. And I'm limited to stay here. Look at all these people whose shoes I'll never be able to walk in. Look at all the lives I'm never going to live."
"damn, that's some severe onism right there."
onism by PiggyStardust February 25, 2019
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Its a sense of how little experience you have in this vast world. Sometimes we think we may have experienced a little more in our younger ages
He is tell about the onism in his biography.
Onism by L0ky September 6, 2021
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a thought process, specifically one that takes hours on end.
I had an onism today, I want to go to the moon.
onism by bootstrapbill January 25, 2007
Its a feeling of how small you experience in this vast world. Sometimes we are thought that a little more we enjoy in our younger age.
He is told about onism in his biography
Onism by L0ky September 6, 2021
An average discordian who simps for Lum, a fictional character in the manga Urusei Yatsura. Onism is also known as "Not gay". Onism has a love with drawing sex pose, especially 69. She is known for drawing Lum in many styles. Onism also plays the popular Online game Roblox. Her username is Onihm789 (sometimes knowns as Cheerluv)
"๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ OMG IS THAT LUM X ATARU SECKS SCENE?!" Onism whenever she saw Lum and Ataru sex (canon)
"๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก SEND ME IT NOW!" Onism whenever someone doesn't send her the things she wants (sex, ships, etc...)
Onism by Ryzenwoooooooooooo March 14, 2022
The name of an online forum within the universe of the indie video game 'YIIK: A Postmodern RPG'
"Hey dude, you checked Onism lately?"
"Yeah, Saw some cool shit"
Onism by CosmicVoid February 17, 2023

right-onism 

1. Oppressive political correctness.
2. The tendency for activists to show excessive zeal in advocating their "righteous" causes, to the point of numbing their audience.

3. Jumping on the bandwagon of social movements in a lemming-like fashion.

There's been a relentless rise of right-onism since the '90s. Not to be confused with onanism, though functionally equivalent.
Man, I'm tired of being preached to by self-righteous vegans and environmentalists. They can take their right-onism and shove it.

After this Harvey Weinstein debacle, suddenly everyone's a feminist ! I'm sick of all this opportunistic right-onism.
right-onism by denumb October 26, 2017
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In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organizationโ€™s average customer.

Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."
Whale by FQ_GFY February 3, 2020
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