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.”

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Aftergloom

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

Immerensis

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Viadne

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

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Liberosis

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

Insoucism

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Caucic

a close-up of a stone walking path