Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Archimony

n.
anger about an injustice you only discovered long after the fact, after years have passed and everyone else has moved on, leaving you seething with an awkward and antiquated righteousness that you’re not sure what to do with, like a flywheel still spinning long after the engine is shut off.

From archi-, earlier, primitive + acrimony, bitterness, animosity. Pronounced “ahr-kuh-moh-nee.”

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Etterath

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Spinning Playback Head

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Kerisl

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Inerrata

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Solla, Solla, Solla

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O’Erpine

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Cullaways

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Backmasking

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Present-Tense

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Anchorage

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Affogatia

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Midsummer

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Heart Of Aces

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Halfwise

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Fellchaser

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Keta

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Nowlings

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Elsing

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Heartmoor

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Affogatia

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Blinkback

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Nachlophobia

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

Backmasking

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Ecsis

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Rubatosis

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

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window