One of the most powerful words you’ll ever hear — and one of the most poignant — isn’t in dictionaries yet. But it probably will be one day. The word is endling, and it means “the last surviving member of a species.” The...
Endling means the last surviving individual of a species, a word coined in the 1990s by Georgia physician Robert Webster after a patient described herself as the last member of her family line. Webster and a colleague proposed it in a 1996 letter to...