Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Énouement

n.
the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, finally learning the answers to how things turned out but being unable to tell your past self.

French énouer, to pluck defective bits from a stretch of cloth + dénouement, the final part of a story, in which all the threads of the plot are drawn together and everything is explained. Pronounced “ey-noo-mahn.”

Nachlophobia

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

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Hobsmacked

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

Dorgone

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

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room