Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Keyframe

n.
a moment that felt innocuous at the time but ended up marking a diversion into a strange new era of your life—a chance meeting you’d think back on for years, a harmless comment that sparked an ongoing feud, an idle musing that would come to define your entire career—a monumental shift secretly buried among the tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next.

In video compression, a key frame defines major changes in a scene. Most frames in compressed video are in-betweens, marking subtle incremental changes, but key frames depict a whole new scene. This technique allows you to move forward without stopping to buffer, even if it makes it harder to rewind.

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

Deep Gut

Cover image for the Deep Gut word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Heartworm

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

Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Antiophobia

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

Aubadoir

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