Evertheless

a person floating in water

Evertheless

n.
the fear that this is ultimately as good as your life is ever going to get—that the ebb and flow of your fortunes is actually just now hitting its high-water mark, and soon enough you’ll sense the tide of life slowly begin to recede.

From ever + nevertheless. Pronounced “ev-er-thuh-les.”

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Angosis

a table full of food

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Dolonia

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

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Nementia

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

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Keep

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

Lockheartedness

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

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Aesthosis

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