Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Inerrata

n.
a kind of mistake you wouldn’t take back even if you could; the reluctance to disown a broken relationship or agonizing experience that has since become part of who you are, and trying to disown it would mean you’re trying to live some other life.

Latin in-, not + errata, mistakes in a printed work. Pronounced “in-eh-rah-tuh.”

Wildred

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

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Fensiveness

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

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table