The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows API

Entry 43

kenopsia

noun

the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet —a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

From the video

We just want to mark our time here, to keep the rooms filled and the memories alive. And if our houses are haunted, it'll be because we're haunting them ourselves,as if there was ever such a thing as unfinished business.

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