lachrymose (en)

(adjective) given to tears or weeping; tearful / (adjective) tending to cause tears; mournful

lambent (en)

(adjective) playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering / (adjective) softly bright or radiant / (adjective) marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression

lassitude (en)

(noun) a condition of weariness or debility; fatigue / (noun) a condition of listlessness; languor

logorrhoea (en)

a tendency to extreme loquacity

louche (en)

disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way

ludic (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or characterized by play; playful

lugubrious (en)

(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal

Manichaeism (en)

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

Marxist (en)

relating to or denoting the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (noun or adj)

meliorism (en)

(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment

mise-en-abyme (fr)

term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"

mise-en-abyme (fr)

term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"

nomenklatura (en)

a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy running all spheres of those countries' activity

numinous (en)

(adjective) supernatural mysterious / (adjective) filled with a sense of the presence of divinity; holy / (adjective) appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense; spiritual

oneiric (en)

(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy

oneiric (en)

(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy

oneiric (en)

(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy

oneiric (en)

(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy

ontology (en)

(noun) a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being / (noun) a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence

palimpsest (en)

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain

palimpsest (en)

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain

palimpsest (en)

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain

pallid (en)

(adjective) deficient in color; wan / (adjective) lacking sparkle or liveliness; dull

panoptic (en)

(adjective) being or presenting a comprehensive or panoramic view

picaresque (en)

(adjective) of or relating to rogues or rascals / (adjective) of, relating to, suggesting, or being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist / (noun) one that is picaresque