Have you ever had the persistent feeling that you were out of place, or felt a sense of sadness that you will never know what will happen to your great-great-grandchildren? Some of these strange feelings have names.
See how many you have experienced:
- Sonder – The realisation that each passerby as a life as vivid and complex as your own.
- 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.
- Enouement – The bittersweet 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.
- Nodus Tollens – The realisation that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
- Onism – The frustation of being stuck in just one body, that inhibits only place 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 boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
- Occhiolism – The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
- 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 lose everything in a fire.
- Exulansis – The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
- Adronitis – Frustation with how long it takes to get to know someone.
- Ruckkehrunruhe – The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
- 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.
- Mauernauertraurigkeit – 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.
- Chrysalism – The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
- Vemodalen – The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
Reference : https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/as6fxv/23_emotions_people_feel_but_cant_explain/


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