Ellipsism

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Ellipsism

n.
the sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out, that you’ll dutifully pass on the joke of being alive without ever learning the punch line, which may not suit your sense of humor anyway and will probably involve how many people it takes to change a lightbulb.

From ellipsis, a marker of a continuation that you don’t get to see. Pronounced “ih-lip-siz-uhm.”

Angosis

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Heart Of Aces

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Agnosthesia

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

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Punt Kick

Cover image for the Punt Kick word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Aoyaoia

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