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

Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Deep Gut

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Flashover

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Kinchy

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Elsewise

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Falesia

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Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Fata Organa

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