Achenia

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

Achenia

n.
the maddening sense that the world is too complex to even begin to understand, that whenever you try to answer even the most trivial question, it quickly tangles into a thicket of complications and melts into a quicksand of nuance, leaving you flailing for something solid to hold on to, struggling to come up with anything you could say that is definitively 100 percent true.

From achene, the fruit that contains the seed of a flowering plant, which is often confused for the seed itself. Whenever you think you’ve arrived at the heart of something, it only ends up hidden away inside some other more complicated structure. Pronounced “uh-kee-nee-uh.”

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Angosis

a table full of food

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Exulansis

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Fawtle

Latigo

aerial view of a city at night

Volander

Eisce

Moledro