Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Boorance

n.
an unassuming feature of our daily lives that will eventually come off as the bizarre relic of a bygone era, that’ll make us look back in shock that we ever thought it was normal to bless each other’s sneezes, drive cars by hand, swim in chlorinated pools, keep animals in zoos, or feel clean using little else but toilet paper—things that we never think to question, because that’s just what people did “back then.”

From boor, an ill-mannered person + hence, in the future from now. Pronounced “boor-uhns.”

Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Fata Organa

Cover image for the Fata Organa word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Emodox

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

Loss Of Backing

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