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eu achei a grande maioria das palavras vagando pelo tumblr e artigos, por isso não há como dar créditos a um lugar específico!

    • adoxography — eloquent praise of a worthless thing.
    • afflatus — sudden rush of divine or poetic inspiration.
    • aesthete — a person who has or who affects a highly developed appreciation of beauty, esp in poetry and the visual arts.
    • amatorculist — a pitiful or insignificant lover.
    • anagogy — mystical interpretation; hidden spiritual sense of words.
    • atelophobia — the fear of not being good enough or imperfection.
    • antiphon — a devotional piece of music sung responsively; a response or reply.
    • atheling — a nobleman or prince, especially the heir to a throne.
    • aubade — a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak.
    • auctoritas — in the Middle Ages, a person whose ideas were considered perfect and unquestionable.
    • avant la lettre — lit. ‘before the letter;’ before a specific thing, idea or entity existed; ahead of its time.
    • barmecide — something illusory or imaginary and therefore disappointing, or a person who offers such a thing.
    • basorexia — a craving to kiss.
    • belletrist — literature created for the sake of art or aesthetics; excessively refined literature, often limited in substance or scope.
    • benthos — the bottom of a sea or lake.
    • bibliophile — a person who collects or is fond of books.
    • castellated — like or resembling a castle.
    • chasmophile — lover of nooks & crannies
    • cingulomania — a desire to hold another in one’s arms.
    • cynosure — literally, polestar; figuratively, focus, center of attention, interest or attraction.
    • daydreaming — fantasizing while awake.
    • demilune — shaped like a crescent moon or half-moon.
    • diablerie — witchcraft; devilry.
    • elengeness — sadness; loneliness; melancholy.
    • endlessness — having or seeming to have no end, limit, or conclusion; boundless; infinite; interminable; incessant.
    • fabulate — to engage in the composition of fables or tales, esp. of a fantastic nature.
    • florilegium — a collection of writings/a portfolio of flower pictures.
    • florulent — flowering, blossoming; flowery
    • forelsket — the euphoria experienced when first falling in love.
    • fernweh — feeling homesick for a place you’ve never been to.
    • gemütlichkeit — coziness; safety; security; warmth; contentedness; belonging.
    • ghazal — a type of poetry devoted to unattainable love; an expression of love.
    • inchoate — only partly existent; incipient; imperfectly formed or formulated; formless.
    • incunabula — a book (or other document) printed during the era when printing was in its infancy, specifically before 1501.
    • katahara itai — the action of laughing so hard that one side of one’s abdomen hurts.
    • komorebi — when sunlight filters through the trees - the interplay between the light and the leaves.
    • logolepsy — an obsession with words.
    • lypophrenia — a vague feeling of sadness seemingly without cause.
    • mahmihlapinatapai — a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves.
    • meraki — the word may be quite close to “ardor,” but is exclusively used when referring to one’s own creations. For example, when making a piece of furniture or cooking a dish, and really loving what you do, putting all your effort and creativity into it, you can be said to be doing it with “meraki”.
    • mångata — the word for the glimmering, roadlike reflection that the moon creates on water.
    • mellisonant — pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"
    • palimpsest — a document which has been erased and written over, usually used of parchments.
    • petrichor — the smell of rain on dry ground.
    • plenilune — a full moon.
    • phosphene — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye.
    • pochemuchka — someone who asks a lot of questions.
    • presque vu — the inability to summon a familiar word.
    • psithurism — the sound of rustling leaves
    • sabaism — the worship of stars.
    • sempiternal — eternal, everlasting, endless, enduring forever; having no known beginning or end.
    • soigné carefully or elegantly done.
    • syzygy — the alignment of three celestial bodies in a straight line, commonly the earth, sun and moon.
    • threnody — a song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
    • 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. (explicação do Nabokov)
    • vade-mecum — something regularly carried about by a given person; also, a reference book.
    • vemod — tender sadness or pensive melancholy.
    • viatic — of or pertaining to traveling or a journey.
    • waldeinsamkeit — the feeling of being alone in the woods.
    • yoko meshi — the particular stress that comes with speaking a foreign language.
jul 8 2014 ∞
oct 25 2015 +