Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Rookish

adj.
feeling a vague longing for some sort of monarch to look down upon us from a high and distant castle, which you’d imagine would pacify the squabbling chaos of civic life and drastically narrow the range of choices and issues you have to think about, finally freeing you up from bearing the microscopic fraction of a crown that forever hangs over your head.

From the chess move of castling, which is when a rook rushes to protect the king, nearly swapping places with him.

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Lyssamania

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

Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Adomania

a person riding a horse

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car