Siso

Siso

n.
a solitary experience you wish you could have shared with someone else—having dinner in a romantic setting, reaching the summit after an arduous climb, having a run-in with a crazy stranger that nobody’s going to believe—which makes you look around for confirmation that it even happened at all.

Welsh si-so, see-saw, an invention that can only ever be enjoyed by multiple people; when used alone, it’s just a wonky bench. Pronounced “see-soh.”

Monachopsis

Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Heartmoor

a campfire with a kettle many small logs

Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street

Allope

Routwash

Pâro

Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

Pax Latrina

Hemeisis

Catoptric Tristesse

Suente

Ledsome

Fitching

Gaudia Civis

a close-up of a gear

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Querinous

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Feresy