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An unformatted soup of custom definitions: ab initio; to start over from the beginning abysmal : not just extremely bad, something that irreversibly sucks you in to a point of no return; like an abyss; something with a fathomless or immense interior from which you can’t escape upon entering. arboreal: a habitation built under trees or canopies ark
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‘People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
WIP (AI) definitions:
Alabaster: A fine-grained, translucent form of gypsum, typically white, often used for carving and decorative objects.
Alacrity: Brisk and cheerful readiness; eagerness.
Albatross: A large seabird known for its ability to fly long distances. In literature and symbolism, it represents a burden or curse, often related to guilt or p
Anemoia
According to Wiktionary, anemoia is an uncommon neologism that means nostalgia for a time or place that has never been known. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows describes anemoia as "nostalgia for a time you've never known".
agnostic : unknowable.
agoraphobia : fear of unfamiliar situations in public.
agrarian : agre = acre, of the land.
Amalthea’s horn : a myth about abundance / having everything you desire. Zeus’s nurse fed goat milk to an infant, snapped off it’s horn, and promised that Zeus will have a pampered life.
amaranth : a fadeless flower.
Amaurote : Thomas Moore