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.”

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Mottleheaded

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

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Aesthosis

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