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.

Drisson

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

Hemeisis

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

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

1202

Cover image for the 1202 word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person