Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as yo

ur own.
Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simu
ltaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
nouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things
turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with
people but is now abandoned and quiet.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close fri
ends who you really like.
Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
Vemdalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of ide
ntical photos already exist.
Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
Ellipsism: A sadness that you ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
Kuebiko: 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 l
ose everything in a fire.
Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because pe
ople are unable to relate to it.
Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
Rckkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find
it fading rapidly from your awareness.
Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn t make sense to yo
u anymore.
Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one p
lace at a time.
Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you ve always had
the same bor
ing flaws and anxieties that you ve been gnawing on for years.
Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
I m pretty sure these are all taken from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a blog
that creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have.