Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Aimonomia

n.
the fear that learning the name of something—a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger—will somehow ruin it, inadvertently transforming a lucky discovery into a conceptual husk pinned in a glass case, leaving one less mystery fluttering around in the universe.

French aimer, to love + nom, name. A palindrome. Pronounced “eym-uh-nohm-ee-uh.”

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Allope

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Feresy

Siso

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

The Standard Blues

Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Keep

Zielschmerz