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.

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Angosis

a table full of food

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Kenaway

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

Attriage

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Wytai

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

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Querinous

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Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Xeno

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

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Sitheless

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