withering

Feeling word · 2 styles

Stage where plant or form sheds. Color turned brown-yellow, saturation falling, edges curled and broken; dry, brittle, light. Of flowers, leaves, patterns.

Styles

• Vanitas
• Mono no Aware

Co-occurs with

• impermanence
• sentimentality
• sadness
• slenderness
• austerity
• pensiveness
• bleakness
• blight
• duration
• gloom
• antiquity
• dullness

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