Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Anticious

adj.
wondering what our ancestors would think of all this; haunted by the awareness that our world was designed by the dead, who spent their lives trying to flesh out every detail but never got to see how it all turned out—who might well think of the present as an impossible dream, a missed opportunity, or the end of the world as they knew it.

From antecedent, predecessor or ancestor + anxious. Pronounced “an-tish-uhs.”

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Exulansis

Cover image for the Exulansis word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Occhiolism

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Ecstatic Shock

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Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Anecdoche

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Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Adronitis

Cover image for the Adronitis word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Heartmoor

a campfire with a kettle many small logs

Dolorblindness

Cover image for the Dolorblindness word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows