Pâro

Pâro

n.
the feeling that everything you do is always somehow wrong—that there’s nothing you can eat that’s actually healthy, nothing you can say that isn’t problematic, no way to raise your kids that won’t leave them traumatized—which makes you wonder if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, “Colder... colder... colder...”

From par 0 (par zero), a theoretical hole on a golf course in which it’s already too late—no matter how well you hit the ball, you’ve already fallen behind. The circumflex on the â is a tiny symbol of someone trying for something then retreating. Compare the Spanish paro, a stoppage or a freezing-up. Pronounced “pahr-oh.”

Ludiosis

Kinchy

Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men

Anti-Aliasing

Routwash

Hobsmacked

Xeno

Burn Upon Reentry

Holiette

Kuebiko

Catoptric Tristesse

Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Pâro

Siso

Anaphasia

Hailbound

Allope

Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Lookaback

Falesia

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Burn Upon Reentry

Catoptric Tristesse

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Wytai

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Ameneurosis