The Wends

Cover image for the The Wends word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

The Wends

n.
the frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, which prompts you to try plugging in various thought combinations to trigger anything more intense than roaring static, as if your heart had been inadvertently demagnetized by a surge of expectations.

From wend, to wander unpredictably along a predetermined path. Compare the bends, which occurs when a diver ascends too quickly and gas bubbles begin to form in their tissues, a condition that can be debilitating or fatal.

Liberosis

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

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Typifice

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

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Insoucism

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