Tenethesia
Tenethesia is an neogender identity and umbrella term for genders related to dark auroracore/dark ethereal fantasy and the concepts and visuals behind it.
Tenethesia is a subset of aurethesia; the primary difference is that tenethesia includes darker imagery; black, dark purple, dark blue accented with the colors included in aurethesia; moral ambiguity or villainy; creatures and characters that lean more towards creepy/scary than cute/pure; etc. Further details can be found on the Pinterest page of the aesthetic's creator.
Terms derived from tenethesia include:
- Teth: A tenethesia person; plural is tethi.
- Teneth: A tenethesia gender; plural is tenethi.
- Tenin: Tenethesia-in-nature (ex: teningender)
- Ten, tene, neth, nethe, tesia: Optional prefixes and suffixes for tenethesia genders. one could also use general aurethesia suffixes for tenethesia genders.
- Tenethine: Having tenethesia qualities; the noun form is tenethinity. (tenethesia equivalent of masculine/masculinity, feminine/femininity, etc.)
- Transtenethine: Transitioning towards tenethinity (tenethesia equivalent of transmasc/transfem/etc.)
- Tenauric: gender alignment to tenethesia/tenethinity
History
Both tenethesia flags were designed by Tumblr user neopronouns on April 13, 2023.[1]
Etymology
The term's name comes from the word "ethereal", the Latin word "tenebris", meaning "darkness", and the Latin word "phantasia", meaning "fantasy".[1]