- atelophobia - (n.) the fear of not being good enough.
- bibliophile - (n.) a lover of books; one who loves to read, admire and collect books.
- clinomania - (n.) excessive desire to stay in bed.
- eccedentesiast - (n.) a person who fakes a smile.
- eleutheromania - (n.) an intense and irresistible desire for freedom.
- heterochromia (he-er-o-chro-mi-a) - (n.) a difference in coloration in two structures or two parts of the same structure that are normally alike incolor.
- hypophrenia - (n.) a feeling of sadness seemingly without cause.
- liberosis - (n.) the desire to care less about things — to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone.
- mamihlapinatapai - (n.) a look shared by two people both wishing the other would initiate what both desire but neither will start.
- mélomane - (n.) music lover.
- nostalgia - (n.) a sentimental longing for the past.
- nyctophilia - (n.) love of darkness or night; finding relaxetion or comfort in the darkness.
- pariah (puh-rahy-uh) - (n.) a person without status. a rejected member of society. an outcast.
- pervigilo - (v.) to lay awake at night.
- psithurism - (n.) the sound of the wind through trees.
- sabaism - (n.) worship of the sun, moon, and stars.
- saudade - (sf. portuguese) the feeling of longing for someone or something who you love and which is lost.
- serendipity - (n.) finding something good without looking for it.
- sophrosyne (so-frO-‘sU-nA) - (n.) a healthy state of mind, characterized by self-control, moderation, and a deep awareness of one's true self, and resulting in true happiness.
- storge - (n.) an affectionate love that slowely develops from friendship.
- thantophobia - (n.) the phobia of losing someone you love.
- vemödalen - (n.) the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist — the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye — which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.
- wanderlust - (n.) a great desire to travel and rove about.
- wonderwall - (adj.) someonw you find yourself thinking about all the time, the person you are completely infactuated with.
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