- acosmist — one who believes that nothing exists
- ailurophile — a cat lover
- ambedo — a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details — raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee — which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life.
- apodyopsis — the act of mentally undressing someone
- aubade — a love song which is sung at dawn
- aureate — pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets
- autexousious — exercising or possessing free will
- betwixt — between
- billet-doux (french) — a love letter
- brontide — the low rumbling of distant thunder
- cataglottism — kissing with tongue, french kissing
- charientism — an artfully veiled insult
- chimerical — merely imaginary, fanciful
- clinquant — glittering, tinsel-like
- cosmogyral — whirling round the universe
- crepuscule — twilight, dusk
- cualacino (italian) — the mark left on a table by a cold glass
- dalliance — a brief love affair
- demesne — the dominion or territory of a sovereign or state
- diaphanous — very sheer and light, almost completely transparent
- dwale — to wander about deliriously
- effervescent — bubbling, vivacious, lively, sparkling
- embrocation — a bruised or diseased part of the body
- ephemeral — lasting a very short time
- epicaricacy — taking pleasure in other’s misfortune, schadenfreud
- eternitarian — one who believes in the eternity of the soul
- ethereal — extremely delicate or refined, heavenly or celestial
- eumoirous — happiness due to being honest and wholesome
- euonym — a pleasing or beautiful name
- euphonious — pleasing, sweet in sound
- euphony — a bearable or agreeable sound
- exosculate — to kiss fervently or heartily
- falshover — the moment a conversation becomes real, which occurs when a spark of trust crosses the room and jolts the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world
- fernweh (german) — an ache for distance
- forelsket (norwegian) — the euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love
- gardeviance — chest for valuables, a travelling trunk
- gigil (filipino) — the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute
- halcyon — calm and peaceful, tranquil, prosperous, gold
- ictuate — to emphasize
- ilunga (tshiluba, congo) — a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
- imbroglio — of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations
- interfation — act of interrupting another while speaking
- kujikenaide (japanese) — «don't lose your heart»
- l’esprit de escalier (french) — the feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said
- lacuna — a blank space or missing part
- lassitude — weariness of body or mind from strain
- mamihlapinatapai (yaghan language) — a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin
- mellifluous — sweetly or smoothly flowing, sweet sounding
- meraki (greek) — doing something with soul, creativity, or love
- mimp — to speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lips
- mondegreen — a word or phrase that is misinterpreted as another word or phrase, usually with an amusing result
- nelipot — one who walks without shoes
- nepenthe — something, such as a drink or a drug, capable of making one forget suffering
- nepheliad — cloud-nymph
- nequient — not being able
- nictitate — wink
- noctivagous — wandering at night
- orphic — mysterious and entracing; beyond ordinary understanding.
- palimpsest — writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased, something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface
- paralian — a person who lives near the sea
- pena ajena (mexican spanish) — the embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation
- penumbra — a shadowy, indefinite, or marginal area
- perantique — very antique or ancient
- petrichor — smell of rain on dry ground; pleasant smell of rain after a dry spell
- phalerate — decorated; made beautiful
- pita — the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
- pochemuchka (russian) — a person who asks a lot of questions
- quarender — a dark red apple
- quiescent — a quiet, soft-spoken soul
- quixotic — extremely romantic and chilvarous
- raconteur — one who excels in story-telling
- redamancy — act of loving in return
- sabaism — the worship of stars
- saudade (portuguese) — refers to the feeling of longing for something or something that you love and which is lost
- sempiternal — everlasting, eternal
- senticous — prickly, thorny
- siagonology — study of jaw-bones
- skúffuskáld (icelandic) — literally translated as “drawer poet”; somenone who's secretly a poet; someone who writes poetry but chugs it all into his desk drawer instead of showing it to people.
- soigné — showing sophisticated elegance, fashionable, well-groomed, polished
- sparsile — of a star, not included in any constellation
- starrify — to decorate with stars, to make into a star
- susurrus — a whispering or rustling sound
- sylph — a graceful and slender young woman
- tarantism — the urge to overcome melancholy by dancing
- tristifical — causing to be sad or mournful
- ubiquitous — being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time, omnipresent
- vacivity — emptiness
- vergangenheitsbewältigung (german)— «coming to terms with the past»
- volongoto (luganda) — disorganized, chaotic
- waldeinsamkeit (german) — the feeling of being alone in the woods
- ya’aburnee (arabic) — literally translated as «you bury me», a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another because of how difficult it would be to live without them
- yakamoz (turkish) — «the moon's reflection on the water»
- yugen — an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words.
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