While it seems there’s almost a word for everything in English, a lot of feelings and emotions still fall between the cracks.
“The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” is a book, that is coming soon from mega-publisher Simon and Schuster, which aims to help solve this problem.
Here are 20 words from the extensive list of words found in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, to link your thoughts to a specific word. Perhaps one day these words will be commonplace in the standard dictionary, too!
1. Opia
The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
2. Monachopsis
The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
3. Mauerbauertrauerigkeit
The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
4. Liberosis
The desire to care less about things.
5. Altschmerz
Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had — the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
6. Jouska
A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
7. Exulansis
The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
8. Anecdoche
A conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening.
9. Adronitis
Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
10. Occhiolism
The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
11. Rubatosis
The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
12. Sonder
The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
13. Kenopsia
The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
14. Nodus Tollens
The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
15. Chrysalism
The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
16. Rücckkehrunruhe
The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
17. Ellipsism
A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
18. Vemödalen
The fear that everything has already been done.
19. Nighthawk
A recurring thought that only seems to strike you late at night—an overdue task, a nagging guilt, a looming and shapeless future—that pecks at the back of your mind while you try to sleep.
20. Ambedo
A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
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