Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Aponemia

n.
the peculiar quality of never having chosen to be born, which is shared by everyone else around you; the curious awareness that even though earthly life might be the most exciting party in the universe, somehow everyone in attendance had been dragged here by a friend or stumbled in by accident.

Greek απονέμω (aponémo), to bestow. Pronounced “ap-uh-nee-mee-uh.”

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Ironsick

a group of random devices

Achenia

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

Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Viadne

Cover image for the Viadne word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Angosis

a table full of food

Tillid

Cover image for the Tillid word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Watashiato

Cover image for the Watashiato word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids