• astaganaga: a longer version of astaga, which is an exclamation word for general surprise situation
  • capernoited: slightly intoxicated or tipsy
  • chimerical: merely imaginary; fanciful
  • clinquant: glittering; tinsel-like
  • devastating: highly destructive or damaging
  • hiraeth: homesickness for a home you can't return to or that never was
  • sayang: the softest indonesian word; it's about affection, care, liking/loving as something/someone is, and it runs just as deep as passionate love. it's the love between parent and child, between two lovers, between you and your dog - it's unconditional and sincere and will always be my favourite word
  • sehnsucht: an emotional state of intensely missing someone, something that has or hasn't or will never happen
  • senja: dusk
  • terdiam: to be silenced by something unintentionally, carries the same weight as tersadar
  • tersadar: to have something dawn on you (but not in a dramatic way, it's a very subtle realisation, almost like a pulse, but it hits you that way)
  • vellichor: the strange wistfulness of used bookshops
nov 14 2016 ∞
oct 30 2019 +