• acatalepsy: the impossibility of comprehending the universe, the belief that human knowledge can never have true certainty
  • aeipathy: an enduring and consuming passion
  • balter: to dance artlessly, without particular grace or skill but usually with enjoyment
  • brumous: of grey skies and winter days; filled with heavy clouds or fog; relating to winter or cold, sunless weather
  • chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm
  • eudaimonia: lit. "human flourishing"; a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
  • eleutheromania: an intense and irresistible desire for freedom
  • euneurophrenia: the peace of mind that comes from having pleasant dreams
  • holophrasis: the expression of complex ideas in a single word or pjrase
  • livsnjutare: one who loves life deeply and lives it to the extreme
  • kairos: the perfect, delicate, crucial moment, the fleeting rightness of time and place that creates the opportune atmosphere for action, words or movement; also, weather
  • kilig: the rush or the inexplicable joy one feels after seeing or experiencing something romantic
  • komorebi: sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees
  • mizpah: the deep emotional bond between people, especially those separated by distance or death
  • noceur: one who sleeps late or not at all; or, one who stays out late to revel or party
  • numinous: describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yey attracred - the powerful, personal feeling of being overhelmed and inspired
  • pluviophile: a lover of rain; someone who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days
  • querencia: a place from which one's strength is drawn, where one feels at home; the place where you are your most authentic self
  • redamancy: the act of loving the one who loves you; a love returned in full
  • saudade: a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and the lost; "the love that remains"
  • serein: the fine, light rain that falls from a clear sky at sunset or in the early hours of night; evening serenity
  • sough: the gentle, soothing murmur of wind or water
  • strikhedonia: the pleasure of being able to say "to hell with it"
  • tristful: deeply yet romantically melancholy
  • yugen: an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words
apr 22 2017 ∞
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