• Wanderlust: A strong innate desire to roam or travel.
  • Cellar Door (phonoaestheticly the most beautiful)
  • Serendipity: An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • Inimitability: Incapable of being imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; matchless.
  • Halcyon: Happy, sunny, care-free.
    • Greek Mythology: a mythical bird, usually identified with the kingfisher, said to breed about the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea, and to have the power of charming winds and waves into calmness.
    • Also: a poetic name for the kingfisher.
  • Ineffable: Incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible
  • Petrichor: The smell of earth after rain.
    • Etymology: from Greek petros, meaning "stone", and ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology
  • Nepenthe: a drug, or the plant providing it, that ancient writers referred to as a means of forgetting grief or trouble.
    • Origin: A drug of Egypt mentioned in the "Odyssey" as capable of banishing grief or trouble from the mind.
  • Zephyr: A gentle, mild breeze.
  • Synchronicity: The coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality
    • Used especially in the psychology of Carl Jung
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