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25 Nouns You Never Knew You Needed To Know

For when your feelings are deeper than your vocabulary allows you to express.

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25 Nouns You Never Knew You Needed To Know
Christopher Higgins

Our feelings often go deeper than our vocabulary, leaving us speechless when trying to explain a moment or situation where we felt something extraordinary. No longer left to wonder whether you're the only one who's felt these things or not, here is a list of feelings that I'm sure you've felt at some point or another.Now you can feel safe knowing that you're not alone in these feelings, so much so that someone even came up with words to describe them. I'm sure most of us have felt some, if not all, of these things at some time in our life but just didn't know how exactly to put it into words.


1. Monachopsis: the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

2. Liberosis: the desire to care less about things.

3. Yugen: an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words.

4. Adronitis: frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

5. Exulansis: the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

6. Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

7. Catoptric tristesse: the sadness that you’ll never really know what other people think of you, whether good, bad, or if at all.

8. Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

9. Chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

10. Voorpret: pre-fun, the sense of enjoyment felt before a party or event takes place.

11. Altschmerz: weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had, the same boring flaws and anxieties you’ve been gnawing on for years.

12. Mal De Coucou: a phenomenon in which you have an active social life but very few close friends.

13. Lachesism: the desire to be struck by disaster — to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall.

14. Onism: the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

15. Nodus Tollens: the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

16. Vemödalen: the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

17. Kairosclerosis: the moment you realize that you’re currently happy.

18. Nighthawk: a recurring thought that only seems to strike you late at night — an overdue task, a nagging guilt, a looming and shapeless future.

19. Ado Mania: the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule.

20. Semaphorism: a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on the subject but don’t go any further — an emphatic nod, a half-told anecdote, an enigmatic ‘I know the feeling.’

21. Xeno: the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers — a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence.

22. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

23. Anchorage: the desire to hold on to time as it passes.

24. Ambedo: a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details — raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee — which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life.

25. Lethobenthos: the habit of forgetting how important someone is to you until you see them again in person.

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