- eutony: the pleasantness of a word's sound
- logastellus: a person whose love of words is greater than their knowledge of words
- holophrasis: the expression of complex words in a single word or phrase
- atelophobia: the fear of not being good enough
- lalochezia: the use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain
- mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people, each wishing the other would initiate something they both desire but which neither wants to begin
- basorexia: an overwhelming desire to kiss
- brontide: the low rumbling of distant thunder
- grapholagnia: the urge to stare at obscene pictures
- agelast: a person who never laughs
- lethogica: when you can't think of the word for something
- dystopia: an imaginary place of total misery; metaphor for hell
- petrichor: the smell of dry rain on the ground
- anagapesis: the feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did
- lypophrenia: a feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause
- drapetomania: an overwhelming urge to run away
- escapism: a mental desire to retreat from unpleasant realities through fantasy
- wanderlust: a desire to travel, to understand one’s very existence
- dysania: the state of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning
- sanctuary: a small safe place in a troubling world
- metathesiophobia: fear of change
- rasasvada: the state of bliss in the absence of all thoughts
- hygge: a complete absence of anything annoying or emotionally overwhelming; taking pleasure from the presence of gentle, soothing things
- esprit d'escalier: the witty comeback you think of after the time is past to use it
- antiscians: people who live on opposite sides of the world, "whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions"
- tacenda: things better left unsaid, matters to be passed over in silence
- kalon: beauty that is more than skin-deep
- yuputka: the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin
- tatemae (建前): what a person pretends to believe; the behaviour and opinions one must display to satisfy society's social demands
- honne (本音): what a person truly believes; the behaviour and opinions which are often kept hidden and only displayed with one's closest confidants
- nyctophilia: love of darkness or night; finding relaxation or comfort in darkness
- noctuary: the record of a single night's events, thoughts, or dreams
- sapiosexual: one who is attracted or aroused by intelligence in others
- scripturient: having a consuming passion to write
- tsundoku (積ん読, つんどく): buying books and not reading them, letting books pile up unread on floors or shelves or nightstands
- eternitarian: one who believes in the eternity of the soul
- aoye (熬夜): "to burn the midnight oil", to pull an all-nighter
- aeolist: a pompous person who only pretends to have inspiration or spiritual insight
- novaturient: desiring or seeking powerful change in one's life, behaviour, or situation
- chimerical: created by unchecked imagination; fantastically visionary or highly improbable
- meraki (μεράκι): the essence of yourself that is put into your work
- apodyopsis: the act of mentally undressing someone
- susurrus: a low soft sound, as of a whispering or muttering or a quiet wind
- myötähäpeä: the feeling of shame you experience on behalf of someone when they do something stupid or embarrassing
- kalopsia: the delusion of things being more beautiful than they actually are
- eesome: pleasing to the eye
- selcouth: unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet marvelous
- noosphere: the sum of human thought, knowledge, and culture
- effleurage: "to stroke as one would a flower", a series of light stroking touches
- la douleur exquise: the heart-wrenching pain of wanting the affection of someone unattainable
- paracosm: a detailed, prolonged imaginary world created by a child that include human, animal, or alien creations
- fernweh: an ache for distant places, the craving for travel
- manqué: having failed to become what one might have been
- kakistocracy: government by the least qualified, most stupid members
- adoxography: beautiful writing on a subject of little or no importance
- nelipot: one who walks barefoot
- accismus: feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it
- silvicultrix: living in the forest
- vade mecum: a favourite book carried everywhere; a handbook of useful information kept at one's side
- ultracrepidarian: someone who gives opinions on matters far beyond their knowledge
- sehnsucht: "the inconsolable longing in the human heart for "we know not what"; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly place one can identify as one's home
- acatalepsy: the impossibility of comprehending the universe; the belief that human knowledge can never have true certainty
- paralian: one who lives by the sea
- aubade: a love song sung at dawn
- sphallolalia: flirtatious talk that leads to nowhere
- alamort: half dead of exhaustion
- charientism: an artfully veiled insult
- alethiology: the study of truth
- naz: the pride that comes from knowing you are loved no matter what
- pulchritudinous: having incredible physical beauty
- aethete: someone with a deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature
- yūgen (幽玄): an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words
- gerascophobia: the fear of growing old
- yonderly: mentally or emotionally distant; absent-minded
- agraphia: writer's block
- waldeinsamkeit: forest solitude; the feeling of being alone in the woods
- wayward: turned or turning away from what is right or proper, as in a wayward child or wayward behaviour
- phantasmagoric: characterized by incredible, intricate, impossibly imaginative imagery
- aprosexia: inability to pay attention, indifference to everything
- raison d'être: reason for existing
- feuillemort: the colour of a dying leaf
- morosis: the stupidest of stupidities
- sprezzatura: the ability to make one's actions seem effortless or to disguise one's true desire, feeling, or meaning; studied carelessness
- raconteur: a talented storyteller
- noceur: one who stays up late
- frisson: a shiver of pleasure
- nemesism: frustration, anger, or aggression directed inward toward oneself and one's way of living
- nemophilist: a haunter of the woods; one who loves the forest and its beauty and solitude
nov 6 2011 ∞
apr 17 2014 +
apr 17 2014 +