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.”

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Plata Rasa

Cover image for the Plata Rasa word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

1202

Cover image for the 1202 word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Ghough

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

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Lilo

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