23 Emotions people feel, but canβt explain
Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Opia:Β The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Monachopsis:Β The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
Γnouement:Β The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
Vellichor:Β The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
Rubatosis:Β The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Kenopsia:Β The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit:Β The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
Jouska:Β A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
VemΓΆdalen:Β The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
Anecdoche:Β A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
Ellipsism:Β A sadness that youβll never be able to know how history will turn out.
Kuebiko:Β A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
Lachesism:Β The desire to be struck by disaster β to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
Exulansis:Β The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Adronitis:Β Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
RΓΌckkehrunruhe:Β The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
Nodus Tollens:Β The realization that the plot of your life doesnβt make sense to you anymore.
Onism:Β The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
Liberosis:Β The desire to care less about things.
Altschmerz:Β Weariness with the same old issues that youβve always had β the same boring flaws and anxieties that youβve been gnawing on for years.
Occhiolism:Β The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
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