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.

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Hiddled

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

La Gaudière

Cover image for the La Gaudière word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Suente

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