A

• adomania: the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fantastical names like ‘2015’ are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally knows the answer to the question
• agastopia: admiration of somebody's body
• alexithymia: the inability to express your feelings
• 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
• ambedo ( n. ): a kind of melancholic 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—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake
• anecdoche: a conversation where no one is listening
• apodyopsis: the act of mentally undressing someone
• aspectabund ( adj. ): letting or being able to let expressive emotion show easily through one's face and eyes
• atelophobia: the fear of imperfection, the fear of never being good enough
• athazagoraphobia: the fear of being forgotten or ignored
• avenoir ( n. ): the desire that memory could flow backward

B

• brontide: the low rumble of distant thunder

C

• canorous: pleasant sounding, melodious
• catagelophobia: fear of being ridiculed

D

• diuretic: a person who has a constant longing for human interaction, but often feels lonely, even when surrounded by others
• dormiveglia: the space that stretches between sleeping and waking
• drapetomania: an overwhelming urge to run away

E

• eccedentesiast: a person who fakes a smile
• ellipsism: a sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out
• euneirophrénia: the peace of mind that comes from having pleasant dreams
• exulansis ( n. ): the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness—which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical, wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a place to land

F

G

• gymnophorie: the distinct feeling that someone, somewhere is mentally undressing you

H

• hiémal : qui appartient à l'hiver, qui se produit en hiver

I

• illecebrous: alluring, attractive, enticing

J

• jouska: a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head

K

• kalon: beauty that is more than skin-deep
• kenopsia: the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet
• klexos: the art of dwelling in the past

L

• liberosis: the desire to care less about things
• logolepsy: an obsession with words
• lygophilia: love of darkness

M

• mamihlapinatapei: the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start
• mauerbauertraurigkeit: the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like
• monachopsis: the subtle persisting sense of being out of place
• morosis: the stupidest of stupidities

N

• nefelibata: literally "cloud-walker"; one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination, or one who does not obey the convention of society, literature or art
• nemophilist: a haunted of the woods; one who loves the forest and its beauty and solitude
• nodus tollens: the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore
• noosphere: the sum of human thought, knowledge and culture

O

• 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 from looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable
• orphic: mysterious and entrancing, beyond ordinary understanding

P

• paracosm: a detailed, prolonged imaginary world invented by a child that includes human, animal, or alien creations
• pediophobia : a fear of dolls
• phosphenes: the stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes

Q

R

• rantipole: wild and reckless
• 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

S

• sciamachy: a battle against imaginary enemies; fighting your shadow
• schadenfreude: the feeling of pleasure derived by seeing another’s misfortune
• senhsucht: "the inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what"; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthy land one can identify as one's home
• serendipity: finding something good without looking for it
• sesquipedalian: tending to use long words
• solivagant: wandering alone
• sonder: the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own

T

U

V

• vellichor :the strange wistfulness of used book stores
• vemödalen ( n. ): the fear that everything has already been done
• vernal : qui est propre ou relatif au printemps, qui se produit au printemps
• viridity: naive innocence
• vorfreude: the joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures

W

• wabi sabi: a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay
• Weltanschaueng: world view, personal philosophy; world sorrow, sadness at the world's woes

X

Y

• yūgen: an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words

Z

• zenosyne: the sense that time keeps going faster