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19 Words For Emotions You Feel But Can’t Explain by imtech(m): 4:47pm On Feb 06, 2016 |
To date, there are 1,025,109 words in the English language, and yet there are so few words for explaining how we feel emotionally. Sure, you’ve got sad and happy and angry and so on, but where’s the word describing the feelings of excitement the night before a road trip? For John Koenig, filling these holes in our language has been his job. In 2009, he started the website The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows and sought to invent words to fill in the gaps of our language. This is some of what he came up with: ADRONITIS (n) Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone. MONACHOPSIS (n) The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place. VELLICHORTHE (n) The strange wistfulness of used bookshops. RUBATOSIS (n) The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat. KENOPSIA (n) The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet. ÉNOUEMENT (n) The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self. MAUERBAUERTRAUNIGKEIT (n) The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like. JOUSKA (n) A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head. SONDER (n) The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own CHRYSALISM (n) the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. VEMÖDALEN (n) The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist. ANECDOCHE (n) A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening ELLIPSIM (n) A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out. KUEBIKO (n) A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence. LACHESISM The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire. EXULANSIS (n) The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. RÜCKKEHRUNRUHE (n) The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. OPIA (n) The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable NODUS TOLLENS (n) The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.. For more, check out The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: 19 Words For Emotions You Feel But Can’t Explain by imtech(m): 5:00pm On Feb 06, 2016 |
so now, hon Patrick's grammer will start making sense to me PS is it just me or is the 7th one just weird |
Re: 19 Words For Emotions You Feel But Can’t Explain by RemenZack(f): 10:06pm On Feb 06, 2016 |
I enjoyed this! New words excite me. |
Re: 19 Words For Emotions You Feel But Can’t Explain by RemenZack(f): 10:09pm On Feb 06, 2016 |
Follow back, please? |
Re: 19 Words For Emotions You Feel But Can’t Explain by Janeyinspires(f): 6:57am On May 18, 2017 |
Aaah! These words are kinda complex just as describing these emotions too. |
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