- cafuné - the act of running your fingers through your lover's hair
- fernweh (German) - feeling homesick for a place one has never been.
- kummerspeck (German) - "grief bacon"; weight gained from emotional over-eating.
- l’appel du vide (French) - "the call of the void"; the urge one gets to throw one's self from a high place.
- l’esprit de l’escalier (French) - "stairwell wit"; a retort or comeback, thought of too late.
- lebensmüde (German) - tired of living.
- litost (Czech) - a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery; a state of feeling miserable and humiliated.
- saudade (Portugese) - the feeling of longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost.
- schadenfreude (German) - the feeling of pleasure one derives from witnessing the misfortune of another.
- torschlusspanik (German) - "gate-closing panic"; the fear of diminishing opportunities as one ages.
- toshka (Russian) - "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 or something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom." - Vladimir Nabokov
- weltschmerz (German) - the depressing feeling you get when comparing the actual state of the world to the picture you have in your head of how the world should be, and knowing that the picture in your head can never exist.
- zerlesen (German) - worn/wearing from being read excessively.
aug 1 2015 ∞
dec 20 2017 +