Attriage

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

Attriage

n.
the state of having lost all control over how you feel about someone— not even trying to quench the flames anymore, but lighting other fires around your head just hoping to contain the damage.

From atria, the chambers of the heart + triage, the sorting of patients in hospital admissions, factoring in the urgency of their illness or injury. Pronounced “at-ree-ahzh.”

Apolytus

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

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Aesthosis

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

Anti-Aliasing

Cover image for the Anti-Aliasing word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Lookaback

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