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    A graphic designer named John Koenig created a website called "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" to develop words for emotions that currently have no name. The website has defined 20 new words like "sonder" which describes realizing that every passerby has a life as complex as one's own. Other terms on the list describe feelings like the frustration of being unable to share an experience because others can't relate ("exulansis"), or the desire to care less about things ("liberosis"). The website aims to enhance language by filling gaps and naming emotions people experience but lack words to describe.

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    A graphic designer named John Koenig created a website called "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" to develop words for emotions that currently have no name. The website has defined 20 new words like "sonder" which describes realizing that every passerby has a life as complex as one's own. Other terms on the list describe feelings like the frustration of being unable to share an experience because others can't relate ("exulansis"), or the desire to care less about things ("liberosis"). The website aims to enhance language by filling gaps and naming emotions people experience but lack words to describe.

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    20 Words That Describes Emotions We Can Feel But Just Can't Explain - Expanded Consciousness

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    A graphic designer named John Koenig created a website called "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" to develop words for emotions that currently have no name. The website has defined 20 new words like "sonder" which describes realizing that every passerby has a life as complex as one's own. Other terms on the list describe feelings like the frustration of being unable to share an experience because others can't relate ("exulansis"), or the desire to care less about things ("liberosis"). The website aims to enhance language by filling gaps and naming emotions people experience but lack words to describe.

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    20WordsThatDescribesEmotionsWeCanFeelButJustCan'tExplainExpandedConsciousness

    20WordsThatDescribesEmotions
    WeCanFeelButJustCantExplain
    BycodyonAugust13,2015
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    Withtheadvancementsbeingmadetokeepourworldspinning,soto
    isthelanguagethatwespeakeveryday.Agraphicdesignernamed
    JohnKoenighascreatedanamazingwebsiteknownasThe
    DictionaryOfObscureSorrows.Thiswebsiteisdedicatedto
    creatingnewmeaningfulwordsthatdescribetheemotionsand
    feelingsforwhichwedonthaveasolidwordforyet.Enhancingour
    languageevenfurtherwithnewwordsforpeopletouse.
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    Koenigsays,
    Eachoriginaldefinitionaimstofillaholeinthe
    languagetogiveanametoemotionsweallmight
    experiencebutdontyethaveawordfor.Eachword
    actuallymeanssomethingetymologically,having
    beenbuiltfromoneofadozenlanguagesor
    renovatedjargon.
    20NewWordsToEnhanceYourVocabulary
    1.Opia:
    (n)TheambiguousintensityofLookingsomeoneintheeye,which
    canfeelsimultaneouslyinvasiveandvulnerable
    2.Sonder:
    (n)Therealizationthateachpasserbyhasalifeasvividandcomplex
    asyourown
    3.nouement:
    (n)Thebittersweetnessofhavingarrivedinthefuture,seeinghow
    thingsturnout,butnotbeingabletotellyourpastself.
    4.Monachopsis:
    (n)Thesubtlebutpersistentfeelingofbeingoutofplace.
    5.Rubatosis:
    (n)Theunsettlingawarenessofyourownheartbeat.
    6.Vellichor:
    (n)Thestrangewistfulnessofusedbookshops.
    7.Mauerbauertraurigkeit:
    (n)Theinexplicableurgetopushpeopleaway,evenclosefriends
    whoyoureallylike.
    8.Kenopsia:
    (n)Theeerie,forlornatmosphereofaplacethatisusuallybustling
    withpeoplebutisnowabandonedandquiet.
    9.Chrysalism:
    (n)theamniotictranquilityofbeingindoorsduringathunderstorm.
    10.Jouska:
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    (n)Ahypotheticalconversationthatyoucompulsivelyplayoutinyour
    head.
    11.Anecdoche:
    (n)Aconversationinwhicheveryoneistalking,butnobodyis
    listening
    12.Vemdalen:
    (n)Thefrustrationofphotographicsomethingamazingwhen
    thousandsofidenticalphotosalreadyexist.
    13.Kuebiko:
    (n)Astateofexhaustioninspiredbyactsofsenselessviolence.
    14.Ellipsism:
    (n)Asadnessthatyoullneverbeabletoknowhowhistorywillturn
    out.
    15.Exulansis:
    (n)Thetendencytogiveuptryingtotalkaboutanexperience
    becausepeopleareunabletorelatetoit.
    16.Lachesism:
    Thedesiretobestruckbydisastertosurviveaplanecrash,orto
    loseeverythinginafire.
    17.Adronitis:
    (n)Frustrationwithhowlongittakestogettoknowsomeone.
    18.NodusTollens:
    (n)Therealizationthattheplotofyourlifedoesntmakesensetoyou
    anymore.
    19.Rckkehrunruhe:
    (n)Thefeelingofreturninghomeafteranimmersivetriponlytofindit
    fadingrapidlyfromyourawareness.
    20.Liberosis:
    (n)Thedesiretocarelessaboutthings.

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