Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Keir

n.
an ill-fated attempt to reenact a beloved memory years later, returning to a place that once felt like home, only to find it now feels uncannily off, like walking through a wax museum of your own childhood.

Dutch kier, fissure or narrow opening, as in the midpoint of an hourglass. Pronounced “keer.”

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Symptomania

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

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table