- abditory: a place into which you can disappear; a hiding place
- agowilt: an unnecessary fear one simply can’t avoid, despite logic.
- alexithymia: inability to express your feelings.
- balter: to dance artlessly, without particular grace or skill but usually with enjoyment.
- basorexia: a strong craving or hunger for kissing.
- chimerical: merely imaginary; fanciful
- cynosure: something that strongly attracts attention by its brilliance, interest, etc.
- clinomania: the excessive desire to stay in bed.
- drapetomania: an overwhelming urge to run away
- dysphoria: an unwell feeling
- eleutheromania: an intense and irresistible desire for freedom. The highly emotional human response has connotations of delirium, craze, and craving for total independence.
- elysian: beautiful or creative; divinely inspired; peaceful and perfect.
- ephemeral: lasting a very short time
- escapism: a mental desire to retreat from unpleasant realities through fantasy
- ikigai: a reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning
- limerence: technical term for having a crush on a person; a very intense feelings of affection towards somebody else that last at a much longer time span - months, years, or even a lifetime - than a normal crush.
- metathesiophobia: fear of change
- mistpouffer: a mysterious sound heard over the ocean in quite, foggy weather.
- nostalgia: a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.
- nunchi: the subtle art of listening and gauging others’ moods; the ability to know what not to say in a certain social situation; the ability to ‘pick up’ things without people having to show or say to you directly.
- nychthemeron: 24 hours
- palinoia: the compulsive repetition of an act until it is perfect.
- quiescent: a quiet, soft-spoken soul
- raconteur: one who excels in story-telling
- redamancy: act of loving in return
- retrouvaille: the joy of meeting or finding someone again after a long separation.
- sempiternal: everlasting; eternal
- serendipity: finding something good without looking for it
- sillage: the lingering aura a scent leaves behind. It is the pleasant trail and presence of someone, it is the trace of perfume.
- vorfreude: the joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures
- wanderlust: a desire to travel, to understand one’s very existence
- werifesteria: means to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery.
- zemblanity: the inevitable discovery of what we would rather not know; the opposite of serendipity.
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