Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Zysia

n.
the sense that you were born too early in history, all too aware of how crude and backward the present can be, feeling tired of having to sit through so much clunky exposition and slow-burning suspense, when all you want to do is skip ahead to find out what happens next.

A word tantalizingly close to being the last word of the dictionary, but not quite there. Pronounced “zee-zhah.”

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Lookaback

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

Apolytus

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

Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter

Zverism

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