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.”

Los Vidados

Cover image for the Los Vidados word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Tillid

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

Addleworth

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

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road