A growing list of unspoken realities, given shape.
📖 These words are proposals.
They may not survive.
They may already exist in another language.
They are real anyway.
✎ Submit your own below ⟶
◭ Veloska
n. — The specific sense of peace that comes from not replying to a message immediately, and knowing you don’t have to.
→ Derived from the friction between urgency and self-preservation.
⊜ Eclipsion
n. — The soft panic when someone says exactly what you were about to say, and you’re no longer sure the thought was ever yours.
→ See also: Intellectual déjà vu.
❖ Tharnic
adj. — Describing a moment where you realize a word you’ve used your whole life no longer fits what you mean.
→ Emotional dislocation via language shift.
↻ Kernulance
n. — The tiny core of meaning you sense in a sentence even when the grammar, vocabulary, or context is broken.
→ A psychic parsing skill.
🜨 Dormisyllable
n. — A word you know exists, can almost hear, but can’t quite remember. Hovers just before sleep, or in the shower.
→ Liminal vocabulary fugue.
⧃ Misquation
n. — The unintended meaning created when someone misreads your tone, even though your words were precise.
→ Linguistic trust fall failure.
∴ Sauntline
n. — A type of silence that feels full, not empty. Shared between people who understand each other too well to speak.
→ See: Unsayable, also: comfort.
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