Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Blinkback

n.
the disillusionment of revisiting a pop-culture touchstone of your youth and finding that it hasn’t aged well at all—having to confront its cringey dialogue, hand-puppet characterization, and wildly implausible plotting—which only makes you wonder what else in your mental fridge is past its expiration date.

Appalachian English (dialect) blinked, soured milk + back, in the past.

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Leidenfreude

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

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Solysium

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

Hickering

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