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.”

The Wends

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

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Thwit

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

Redesis

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

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape