- Above my pay grade: Don’t ask me.
- Acatalepsy: The impossibility of comprehending the universe.
- Acosmist: One who believes that nothing exists.
- Adoxography: Beautiful writing with a subject of little or no importance.
- Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
- Aeipathy: An enduring and consuming passion. An unyielding passion or love of something or someone. A passion so strong that it could be considered pathological; it withstands, time, doubt, and change.
- Alate: Having wings; lifted up in flight.
- Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
- Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
- Aphelion: The point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is farthest from the Sun.
- Astral: Relating to or resembling the stars.
- Aubade: A song greeting the dawn, a love song which is sung at dawn.
- Aureate: Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets.
- Blatherskite: A person who talks aimlessly without making sense. An ancient word with Scottish origins, blatherskite is usually used to refer to politicians or anyone who is not respected.
- Brood: To think alone.
- Bungalow: (noun) A small, cozy cottage.
- Caldera: A large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano.
- Carry a torch: To have a crush on someone.
- Cat’s meow: Something splendid or stylish.
- Celestial: Positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy.
- Chimerical: Merely imaginary; fanciful.
- Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
- Commuovere: To stir, to touch, to move to tears.
- Constellation: A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern.
- Cook with gas: To do something right
- Cosmos: The universe seen as a well-ordered whole.
- Dormiveglia: The space that stretches between sleeping and waking.
- Ducky shincracker: A good dancer.
- Dwale: To wander about deliriously.
- Dysphoria: An unwell feeling.
- Eager beaver: Enthusiastic helper.
- Ebullience: (noun) Bubbling enthusiasm.
- Eleutheromania: An intense and irresistible desire to be free.
- Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
- Eloquence: (noun) The art of using language in an apt, fluent way.
- Ephemeral: Lasting a very short time.
- Equanimity: (noun) Mental calmness, composure, evenness of temper.
- Equinox: The time or date at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length.
- Ethereal: (adjective) Extremely delicate, light, not of this world.
- Eumoirous: Happiness due to being honest and wholesome.
- Eunoia: Beautiful thinking; a well mind. It also connotes the possession of a well-balanced mind, which exhibits goodwill and kindness.
- Euphonious: Pleasing; sweet in sound.
- Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
- Flip your wig: To lose control of yourself.
- Hard Boiled: A tough, strong guy.
- Hiraeth: A home sickness for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
- Hooch: Bootleg liquor.
- Hoofer: Dancer.
- Hotsy-totsy: Pleasing.
- Interstellar: Occurring or situated between stars.
- Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
- Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
- Killer-diller: Good stuff.
- Kisser: Mouth.
- Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
- Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
- Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
- Limerence: The state of being infatuated with another person.
- Llilt: (verb) To move musically.
- Logolepsy: An obsession with words.
- Lunation: The interval of a complete lunar cycle, between one new Moon and the next.
- Matutine: Just before the dawn.
- Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
- Mimp: To speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lips.
- Moll: A gangster’s girl.
- Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
- Moult: (adv.) Many, much.
- Nebula: A cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.
- Nemophilist: A haunter of the woods; one who loves the fores and it’s beauty and solitude.
- Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
- Nyctophilia: The love of darkness, or nighttime.
- Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
- Oneirataxia: The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
- Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
- Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
- Orphic: Mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.
- Pennies from heaven: Easy money.
- Perihelion: The point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the Sun.
- Petrichor: The pleasant scent of the earth after it rains. petra = “stone” + ichor = the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in greek mythology.
- Pluviophile: (noun) A lover of the rain. They revel in the smell of the wet streets and grass, the sound of raindrops hitting the window, and the scenery of the sky. They find the grayness of the sky and the atmosphere both peaceful and beautiful.
- Psithurism: The sound of wind blowing through trees.
- Quiescence: (adjective) The state or quality of being in repose or at rest.
- Quiescent: A quiet, soft-spoken soul.
- Raconteur: One who excels in story-telling.
- Redamancy: Act of loving in return.
- Renaissance: (noun) Reborn.
- Ritzy: Elegant.
- Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
- Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
- Sabaism: The worship of stars.
- Sapiosexual: One who is attracted to the intelligence in others.
- Scintilla: (noun) A tiny spark.
- Scram: Ask someone to leave immediately.
- Scripturient: Having a consuming passion to write.
- Selcouth: (adjective) Air of mystery and unfamiliar exquisiteness, which has been unexpectedly discovered. Strange, yet beautiful. Should be reserved to describe the extraordinary
- Sempiternal: Everlasting; eternal.
- Serendipity: Finding something good without looking for it.
- Soitently: Sure!
- Solivagant: (noun) One who wonders alone; usually an extremely independent person; typically a loner, who has a need for freedom, adventure and transition; one who loves, treasures, and preserves their solitude.
- Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
- Spiffy: An elegant appearance.
- Spread Out!: Get out of the way!
- Stompers: Shoes.
- Stuck on: Having a crush on.
- Surreptitious: (adjective) Kept secret.
- Susurrus: A whispering or rustling sound.
- Swanky: Ritzy
- Swell: Wonderful.
- Synodic: Relating to or involving the conjunction of stars, planets, or other celestial objects.
- Take a powder: To leave.
- Tournesol: Sunflower.
- Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
- Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
- What’s buzzin’, cousin?: How’s it going?
- Whoopee: To have a good time.
- Wise guy: A smart ass.
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