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- koi no yokan 恋の予感 (n. Japanese)
- lit. "premonition of love"
- the sense one can have upon first meeting another person that the two of them are going to fall in love
- differs from the idea of "love at first sight" in that it does not imply that the feeling of love exists; rather, it refers to the knowledge that a future love is inevitable
- cwtch (n. Welsh)
- the feeling of a safe place or home that a hug, cuddle or snuggle gives
- a strong affection made manifest and can apply to lovers, friends, or a parent and child
- atelophobia (n.)
- the fear of not being good enough
- nostalgia (n.)
- a sentimental longing for the past
- catharsis (n.)
- the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions
- usually through art, like tragedy or music
- precarious (adj.)
- not securely held or in position
- dangerously likely to fall or collapse
- dependent on chance
- ineffable (adj.)
- too great to be expressed in words
- yuanfen 緣份 (n. Mandarin)
- a relationship brought by fate or destiny
- the "binding force" that links two people together in any relationship
- mamihlapinatapai (n. Yaghan)
- a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something they both desire but which neither wants to begin
- philophobia (n.)
- the fear of falling in love
- clinomania (n.)
- the excessive desire to stay in bed
- retrouvailles (n. French)
- the happiness of meeting again after a long time
- tintiddle (n.)
- a witty retort thought off too late
- English equivalent of the French l'esprit d'escalier
- ikigai 生き甲斐 (n. Japanese)
- what you live for, the passion and the purpose of your life
- ikstuarpok (n. Inuit)
- the feeling of anticipation that leads you to keep looking outside to see if anyone is coming
- sobremesa (n. Spanish)
- the time spent after lunch or dinner, talking to the people you shared the meal with
- goya (n. Urdu)
- the transporting suspension of disbelief that can occur from good storytelling
- scripturient (adj.)
- having a consuming passion to write
- petrichor (n.)
- the scent of rain on dry earth
- wanderlust (n.)
- a great desire to travel and rove about
- pluviophile (n.)
- a lover of rain
- someone who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days
- forelsket (n. Norwegian)
- the euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love
- litost (n. Czech)
- a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery
- nunchi 눈치 (n. Korean)
- emotional intelligence
- the subtle art of listening and gauging another’s mood
- knowing what to say or do, or what not to say or do, in a given situation
- cerebrotonic (adj.)
- relating to or resembling a personality type characterised by shyness, introspection and emotional restraint
- often associated with an ectomorphic (slender) physique
- callipathos (n.)
- the romanticization of pain
- sillage (n. French)
- the scent that lingers in the air after something or someone has been there before you and gone
- vorfreude (n. German)
- the joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures
- cafuné (n. Brazilian Portuguese)
- the act of tenderly running your fingers through your significant other's hair
- hadiwist (n.)
- the awareness that, if only one had known, one must have acted otherwise
- a vain regret, or the heedlessness or loss of opportunity which leads to it
- tsundoku 積ん読 (n. Japanese)
- buying books & not reading them, leaving them to pile up
- in vergessenheit geraten (v. German)
- to be forgotten, in a way one fades away slowly in someone's memory, continuously being erased from every history there is
- celsitude (n.)
- high rank, majesty
- loftiness
- agapesis (n.)
- a continuance of love for a previous partner
- age-otori 上げ劣り (n. Japanese)
- to look worse after a haircut
- arigata-meiwaku 有り難迷惑 (n. Japanese)
- an act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude
- backpfeifengesicht (n. German)
- a face badly in need of a fist
- quaintrelle (n.)
- a woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm and cultivation of life's pleasures
- misophrenic (n./adj.)
- one who is consumed by hatred
- pertaining to the experience of hatred
- resfeber (n. Swedish)
- the nervous feeling before undertaking a journey
- the restless race of a traveler’s heart before a journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together
- onism (n.)
- the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here
- balter (v.)
- to dance gracelessly, without particular art or skill, but perhaps with some enjoyment
- koyaanisqatsi (n. Hopi)
- "life out of balance"
- a state of life that calls for another way of living
- foraminate (v.)
- to pierce; to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does
- stelliate (v.)
- to scatter or adorn with stars
- ame (n.)
- soul; spirit - the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal
- oneirataxia (n.)
- the inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality
- hiraeth (n.)
- a homesickness for a home you can't return to, or that never was
- vellichor (n.)
- the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured
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