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SO FAR. You can use it for pretty much anything that happened in your life. For example, you might say "I've never thought about it that way until now", "I've never tasted this kind of food until now". "so far" seems more specific and purposeful. It works better with something you started at some point with a purpose.

Tending towards a goal[edit]

According to Garey (1957), who introduced the term "telic",^[6] telic verbs are verbs expressing an action tending towards a goal envisaged as realized in a perfective tense, but as contingent in an imperfective tense; atelic verbs, on the other hand, are verbs which do not involve any goal nor endpoint in their semantic structure, but denote actions that are realized as soon as they begin. - CONTRACT LAW

other words for figure of speech
allegory. allusion. analogy. anticlimax. antithesis.

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"a light winter": 

A thermocline (also known as the thermal layer or the metalimnion in lakes) is a thin but distinct layer in a large body of fluid (e.g. water, as in an ocean or lake; or air, e.g. an atmosphere) in which temperature changes more drastically with depth than it does in the layers above or below.

re. mass - - lag

FATHOM

To fathom something is to understand it thoroughly, and is usually used in the negative, as in "I can't fathom why he doesn't want to go along with us." ... To understand something thoroughly is "to get to the bottom of it."

Noun. aralkyl (plural aralkyls) (organic chemistry) Any univalent radical derived from an alkyl radical by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by aryl groups.