Occhiolism

Occhiolism

n.
the awareness of how fundamentally limited your senses are—noticing how little of your field of vision is ever in focus, how few colors you’re able to see, how few sounds you’re able to hear, and how intrusively your brain fills in the blanks with its own cartoonish extrapolations—which makes you wish you could experience the whole of reality instead of only evercatching a tiny glimpse of it, to just once step back from the keyhole and finally open the door.

Italian occhiolino (“little eye”), the original name that Galileo gave to the microscope in 1609. Pronounced “oh-kyoh-liz-uhm.”

Rückkehrunruhe

Ne’er-Be-Gone

Occhiolism

Mahpiohanzia

La Cuna

Gobo

Fitzcarraldo

Justing

Ringlorn

Kairosclerosis

Trumspringa

Harmonoia

Idlewild

Exulansis

Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

Vulture Shock

Wildred

Ghough

Innity

Momophobia

Lyssamania

Trueholding

The Unsharp Mask

Exulansis

Vellichor

The Meantime

Mithenness