n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place thatâs usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quietâa school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgroundsâan emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.
When the couple revisited their old home, there was an unmistakable air of kenopsia.
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