Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Enterhood

n.
the set of living people who have known you all your life, all the way back to your infancy, before you had a clue who you were; a group that slowly shrinks as you get older, until the point when all of your closest confidants have only ever seen an abridged version of you, having joined your story somewhere in the middle of things, just as you did.

From enter + entire + hood.

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Kuebiko

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

Exulansis

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

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Hickering

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