Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

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.”

Ghough

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

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Justing

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

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Craxis

a tall house of cards