• kalopsia

= the belief that things appear more beautiful than they are

• hiraeth

= homesickness for a place that doesn’t exist

• alazia

= the fear you are no longer able to change

• quixotic

= exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical

• fickle

= changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties, interests, or affection

• faint-hearted

= lacking courage; timid

• querencia

= a place from which one's strength is drawn, where one feels at home; the place where you are your most authentic self

• sillage

= the scent that lingers in air, the trail left in water, the impression made in space after something or someone has been and gone; the trace of someone's perfume

• thalassophile

= a person who loves sea, oceans

• sehnsucht

= "the inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what"; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-early land one can identify as one's home

• kenopsia

= the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually busy but now is quiet and abandoned.