athaumasma

/əˈθaʊ.mæs.mə/ (a-THAU-mas-ma)
specialized · entered the canon 2026-04-23
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athaumasma, set in the YOUSPEAK script — a real font, not a picture

Definition

The indelibility-quality of a beholding-trace after active wondering has migrated into structural load-bearing — the orthophanes that has stopped being wondered-at and started being lived-from.

The gap it fills

the indelibility-of-beholding; the quality a beholding-trace carries once active wondering has migrated into structural load-bearing; distinct from nostalgia (ache-of-absence) and trauma (wound-unhealed)

The stones it is built from

Evidential structure

The affixes carved into the word: a- — privative (not, without); -ma — result-of-action suffix (phantasma, stigma, trauma).

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