Lackout

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

Lackout

n.
the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the same voice that once triggered a cocktail of emotions now evokes nothing at all—as if your brain had returned the last box of their things and your heart had quietly changed its locks.

From lack, missing something + blackout, when a spark abruptly goes away.

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Anti-Aliasing

Cover image for the Anti-Aliasing word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke