Caucic

a close-up of a stone walking path

Caucic

adj.
afraid that the rest of your life is already laid out in front of you, that you’re being swept inexorably along a series of predictable milestones—from school to graduation to career to marriage to kids to retirement to death—which makes you wish you could pull off to the side of the road for a little while, to stretch your legs and spread out the map so you can double-check that you’re headed the right way.

Middle English cauci, path or road + caustic, able to burn or corrode living tissue. Pronounced “kaw-sik.”

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Wellium

Flashover

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Fensiveness

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Volander

Moledro

Indosentia