Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Ecury

n.
a conversation that spans huge intervals of time, kept alive by contributors who casually overlay their thoughts as if no time had passed, which effectively compresses it all into a poignant temporal mash—an online thread that waits years between replies, a constitution being amended by successive generations, or a cave painting fleshed out in sessions ten thousand years apart, by artists who might each have been using the same discarded piece of charcoal.

Basque ekurrikatz, a piece of charcoal used for drawing. Pronounced “ek-yuh-ree.”

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Idlewild

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

Antiophobia

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

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Manusia

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

Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Ironsick

a group of random devices

Treachery Of The Common

Cover image for the Treachery Of The Common word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows