aka words that describe certain feelings, a lot of uncommon words too :)
Opia - The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable
Monachopsis - The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit - The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
Jouska - A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Adronitis - Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
Ambedo - A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details
Keta - An image that inexplicably leaps back into your mind from the distant past.
Nighthawk - A recurring thought that only seems to strike you late at night.
Gnossienne - A moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life
Rigor samsa - A kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time
Silience - The kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, unremarkably
Keyframe - A moment that seemed innocuous at the time but ended up marking a diversion into a strange new era of your life
Yu Yi - The Desire to Feel Intensely Again
Anemoia - Nostalgia for a time you’ve never known
Semaphorism - A conversational hint that you have something personal to say on the subject but don’t go any further
Fitzcarraldo - an image that somehow becomes lodged deep in your brain
Fata organa - A flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room, idly locked in the middle of some group conversation, their eyes glinting with vulnerability or quiet anticipation or cosmic boredom
Rubatosis - The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat
Kenopsia - The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet
Ecstatic shock - The surge of energy upon catching a glance from someone you like
Anchorage - The desire to hold on to time as it passes
Kairosclerosis - The moment you realize that you’re currently happy
Heartworm - A relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished
Anthrodynia - A state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
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
Slipcast - The default expression that your face automatically reverts to when idle—amused, melancholic, pissed off
Flashover - The moment a conversation becomes real and alive
Hanker sore - Finding a person so attractive it actually kinda pisses you off
Aimonomia - Fear that learning the name of something
Waldosia - A condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there
Nementia - The post-distraction effort to recall the reason why you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited
Deep cut - An emotion you haven’t felt in years that you might have forgotten about completely if your emotional playlist hadn’t been left on shuffle
Lethobenthos - The habit of forgetting how important someone is to you until you see them again in person
Dream fever - The intense heat on the skin of a sleeping person
Lalalalia - The realization while talking to yourself that someone else is within earshot
Rollover reaction - When your dream about someone you know skews how you feel about them all the next day, an emotion you are unable—and unwilling—to shake.
Altschmerz - Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had
Razbliuto - That feeling you have for someone you used to love
Rojong - To bear a load together
Wabi - That flaw which makes an object more beautiful.
Aware - Beauty so ephemeral that we can only appreciate it briefly
Yoin - The feeling of an experience stays with us long after it is over
Bettschwere - The feeling that you really can’t do anything but snuggle down under the covers and enjoy a day of torpor
Lypophrenia - A vague feeling of sadness that doesn’t seem to have a cause
Kekau - Awakening from a nightmare
Petrichor - The smell of rain
Onism - The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
Naz - The confidence you feel because you know that someone loves you
Koi no yokan - A feeling that arises when two compatible people meet for the first time
Forelsket - How you feel when you first begin to fall in love
Send a word and a name!! x
i scavenged these from around the internet
