- lukos: from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”). Cognates include Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Latin lupus, Old English wulf (English wolf) and Russian волк.
- lagom: from Swedish not too little, not too much; just right
- amor fati: from Latin, loosely translating to "love of fate" or "love of one's fate"
- ecdemomania: from Greek wandering [ecdemo-] meaning 'away from home').
- serendipity: from English, a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; a fortunate mistake. Specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it.
- Tikkun olam: from Hebrew (תיקון עולם or תקון עולם[1]), means "repairing the world" or "healing the world" which suggests humanity's shared responsibility to heal, repair and transform the world
- raconteur: a person who tells anecdotes in a skilful and amusing way
- svn’-ta: from Siletz Dee-ni, "stars", which means the "the bones of the universe"
- barghest: the derivation of the word is disputed. Ghost in the north of England was once pronounced guest, and the name is thought to be burh-ghest: town-ghost. Others explain it as German Berg-geist (mountain spirit), or Bär-geist (bear-spirit), in allusion to its alleged appearance at times as a bear. Another mooted derivation is 'Bier-Geist', the 'spirit of the funeral bier'.
- soldier on: Oasis; Temper Trap
- Subhan'Allāh: from Arabic ( سبحان الله ); often translated as "Glorious is God"
- Sehnsucht: German noun translated as "longing", "yearning", or "craving"; in a wider sense a type of "intensely missing"; similar to the Portuguese word, saudade. Sehnsucht is a compound word, originating from an ardent longing or yearning ( das Sehnen ) and addiction ( die Sucht ); represents thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences
- Schlimmbesserung: from German; to describe an effort to make things better that actually ends up making things worse
- Mot Juste: the exact, appropriate word for any situation
- Auralize: like visualizing but with sound
- Estival: pertaining to summer, like autumnal for fall, brumal for winter and vernal for spring
- Semantic Satiation: when you say or read a word so many times that it stops making sense
- Dysphemims: use of negative term when a neutral or positive term could have been used, like sick
- Sonder: the sudden realization that everyone around you is living a life as vivid and complex as your own
- Lacuna: a non-English word that describes something for which there is no English word
- Heisenbug: when a problem suddenly goes away when you attempt to study or fix it
- Denominalisation: using a word that is not a verb as a verb
- Lethologia: inability to articulate a thought due to forgetting a key word, phrase or name, as on the tip of your tongue
- L'appel Du Vide: the urge of jump from a high place encountering a high place
- Aftertouch: the feeling that something has been in prolonged contact with your skin is still in contact with your skin even after it's been removed
- Cryptomnesia: when you forget that you'v forgotten something, and you perceive it as a new, original thought
nov 12 2013 ∞
oct 20 2014 +
oct 20 2014 +