- Pluvial: Of or relating to rain
- Apricity: The warmth of the sun in winter
- Cafuné: Brazilian Portuguese – “The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.”
- Saudade: Portuguese – “refers to the feeling of longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost.” Fado music, a type of mournful singing, relates to saudade
- Mnemophobia: Fear of memories
- Woolgathering: Indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness:His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- Philophobia: Fear of emotional attachment ; Fear of being in or falling in love
- Opsablepsia: The inability to look someone in the eye while speaking
- Phosphenes: The stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes
- Moon Child: One who belongs to a community of integrity, love and unity
- Escapism: A mental diversion to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- Petrichor: The scent of rain on dry earth
- Chrysalism: n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.
apr 20 2010 ∞
jul 4 2012 +