Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Aulasy

n.
the sadness that there’s no way to convey a powerful memory to people who weren’t there at the time—driving past your childhood home to show it to a friend, or pointing at a picture of a loved one you lost, only to realize that to them it’s just another house, just another face.

A contraction of auld lang syne, which is Scots for “times long past”—fragments of which are still present in aulasy, but the meaning has been lost. Pronounced “awl-uh-see.”

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Agnosthesia

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

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Ledsome

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

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Xeno

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

Loss Of Backing

Cover image for the Loss Of Backing word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Siso

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