Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Future-Tense

adj.
sensing the judgment of your future self looking over your shoulder—chuckling at your well-laid plans or clutching their pearls at the risky move you’re about to make—which leaves you faintly wary of their opinion, even though you know they’d take your place in a heartbeat.

From future (the grammatical tense) + tense.

Wildred

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

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car