Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Rasque

n.
a moment you instantly wish you could take back, feeling a pulse of dread right after crossing the point of no return—a blurted confession, a hurled insult, a final decision you’d been waffling over for months— wanting to take just one step backward in time, reverting to the way things used to be, in the halcyon days of just a minute ago.

From rue, to regret + bourrasque, a tempest. Pronounced “rask.”

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

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Sayfish

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

Fata Organa

Cover image for the Fata Organa word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Elsing

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

Flichtish

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

Ne’er-Be-Gone

Cover image for the Ne’er-Be-Gone word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Endzoned

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

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person