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.”

Drisson

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Aftergloom

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Rubatosis

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Catoptric Tristesse

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Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road