What is the Auspictionary?

We live (and write) in weird, complex times.

From social phenomena to ideas, from behaviors to personal relations and feelings, old dictionaries often prove lacking in describing the world around us; just think how fast the word "cringe" has risen to common parlance. A symptom of a generation that thinks and feels differently from past ones.

Now, I'm aware I'm no Shakespeare and one can't just materialize words out of nowhere into everyone's brains and mouths. But at the same time, I think it's my (our?) duty as a writer to make an attempt at describing new things, or things that we've always felt but never named, because we never needed to and now we do. We're always limited by what we can and cannot say.

So this is the Auspictionary: a collection of all the words that might or might not be useful to speak our minds in the next decades, and maybe help other speculative writers to think about theirs. And if you have words to suggest, I'm eager to talk about their vision and add them here! My DMs are always open.

Moreover, since I'm using an auto-translator (for the texts here, NOT for the Auspictionary itself!) and (by definition) it can't translate words that are not in its database, every entry will be in both Italian and English, since these are the languages I'm comfortable enough to bend and play around with. You're allowed to try and bring them to your own languages, provided that you tell me how you did it!

P.S.: The idea is actually inspired by Plants for a Future, a fantastic "tree dictionary" that provides every info about known trees and how to handle them.

• 🇪🇺 Archaeotechnology - 🇮🇹 Archeotecnologia:
  From English/Italian archaeology and technology. The study of past technologies by inspection of memory drives and analysis of its material remains. Mostly focused on technologies that are obsolete or impossible to reproduce.
• 🇪🇺 Authware - 🇮🇹 Autoriware:
  From English authoritarian and suffix -ware. Technology explicitly designed to control and surveil its user(s).
• 🇪🇺 Biblisection - 🇮🇹 Biblisezione:
  From English/Italian vivisection and Ancient Greek biblìon. The practice of dissecting and analyzing a text, in order to isolate its themes, assumptions, inner mechanisms and their interactions.
• 🇪🇺 Climmunity - 🇮🇹 Climmunità:
  From Ancient Greek klima and Latin immunis. Property of a place or object that is resistant to adverse climactic conditions.
• 🇪🇺 Cosmopoiesis - 🇮🇹 Cosmopoiesi:
  From Ancient Greek cosmos and poiesis. Act or art of creating a world and its complex physical, ecological, social, technological and cultural dynamics. Synonym of Worldbuilding.
• 🇪🇺 Ergo - 🇮🇹 Ergere:
  From Ancient Greek ergon. The act of working for one's personal pleasure, such as dedicating time and effort to a hobby or a to a non-retributed personal project. Past tense: erwent; past participle: ergone.
• 🇪🇺 Glottopoiesis - 🇮🇹 Glottopoiesi:
  From Ancient Greek glotta and poiesis. Act or art of creating a language and its complex dynamics. Synonym of Conlanging.
• 🇪🇺 Metropoiesis - 🇮🇹 Metropoiesi:
  From Ancient Greek metropoleis and poiesis. Act or art of creating a city and its complex social, technological, cultural, logistical and neighborhood dynamics.
• 🇪🇺 Nonstalgia - 🇮🇹 Nonstalgia:
  From English/Italian nostalgia. Feeling of melancholy and loss towards a past that has never been experienced or lived.
• 🇪🇺 Onomaturgy - 🇮🇹 Onomaturgia:
  From Ancient Greek onoma and English/Italian thaumaturgy. Act or art of creating new words.
• 🇪🇺 Sophiurgist - 🇮🇹 Sofiurgo:
  From Ancient Greek sophia and ergon. Person whose life is dedicated to creating or preserving knowledge.
• 🇪🇺 Welware - 🇮🇹 Benware:
  From English welfare and suffix -ware. Technology explicitly designed to be donated and raise the quality of life of its user(s).