Anticious
adj.
wondering what our ancestors would think of all this; haunted by the awareness that our world was designed by the dead, who spent their lives trying to flesh out every detail but never got to see how it all turned out—who might well think of the present as an impossible dream, a missed opportunity, or the end of the world as they knew it.
From antecedent, predecessor or ancestor + anxious. Pronounced “an-tish-uhs.”
