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.”

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Solysium

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On Tenderhooks

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Manusia

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Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Wytai

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

Ameneurosis

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Rivener

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Flichtish

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Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road