- Ambrosial - fragrant
- Autumnal - pertaining to Autumn
- Avoir le cafard (French) - to be so bored you become enveloped in depression
- Brontide - the rumbling of distant thunder
- Duende - the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person (Spanish)
- Eloquence - beauty in speech
- Ennui - a feeling of oppressive boredom (French)
- Gardeviance - chest for valuables; a travelling trunk
- Gumusservi - moonlight shining on water (Turkish)
- Labyrinthine - twisting and turning
- Melancholy - sadness
- Malevolent - evil
- Mellifluous - sweet-sounding
- Petrichor - the smell of earth after rain
- Saudade - the feeling of longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost (Portugese)
- Toska - “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.” - Vladmir Nabokov (Russian)
- Wabi-Sabi - a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay (Japanese)
- Ya'aburnee - 'Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.' (Arabic)
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