• aimonomia — fear that learning the name of something — a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger — will somehow ruin it, transforming a lucky discovery into a conceptual husk pinned in a glass case, which leaves one less mystery to flutter around your head, trying to get in.
  • athazagoraphobia — the fear of forgetting or being forgotten.
  • drapetomania — an overwhelming urge to runaway
  • dysania — the state of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning.
  • dysphoria — feelings of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or unease; a seemingly perpetual state of general yet acute unhappiness.
  • lalochezia — the use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress, pain, or emotion.
  • lygerastia — condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are off.
  • lypophrenia — a feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause.
  • metathesiophobia — fear of change.
  • pareidolia — a psychological phenomenon, where in a person has the notion of seeing faces of people in clouds, hearing hidden messages and other such unusual feelings.
jun 28 2011 ∞
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