Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Cullaways

n.
the scattering of memories that your brain is actively forgetting at any given moment, erasing them one by one with no input from you and no knowledge that it’s happening at all—which means that when you wake up in the morning, your past will feel imperceptibly altered, with no trace of what you ate last week, a party you attended ten years ago, or the first real conversation you had with your grandfather.

From cull, to control the size of a herd by selectively killing some animals + away. Pronounced “kuhl-uh-weys.”

Nullness

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

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Zielschmerz

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

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car