Craxis

a tall house of cards

Craxis

n.
the unease of knowing how quickly your circumstances could change on you—that no matter how carefully you shape your life into what you want it to be, the whole thing could be overturned in an instant, with little more than a single word, a single step, a phone call out of the blue, and by the end of next week you might already be looking back on this morning as if it were a million years ago, a poignant last hurrah of normal life.

Latin crāstinō diē, tomorrow + praxis, the process of turning theory into reality. Pronounced “krak-sis.”

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

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Typifice

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

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Volander

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

The Standard Blues

Cover image for the The Standard Blues word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Jouska

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

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above