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.

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Kuebiko

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

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Mottleheaded

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

The Til

Cover image for the The Til word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt