• logastellus:

a person whose love of words is greater than their knowledge of words.

• tristifical:

causing to be sad or mournful

• ya'aburnee:

the hope that you will die before you love because you cannot live without them.

• kenopsia:

the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

• clinomania:

the excessive desire to stay in bed.

• age-otori (japanese):

to look worse after a hair cut

• xeno:

the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers, such as a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh, etc.

• phosphenes:

the color or "stars" you see when you rub your eyes.

• kvetch:

someone who complains constantly.

• yugen:

an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional too deep and mysterious for words.

• komerebi:

sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees.

• backpfeifengesicht:

a person that needs to be slapped. ("a face that needs a fist in it")

• galeanthropy:

the belief that you are a cat.

• nostalgia:

the sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place previously associated with positive experiences.

• borborygmi:

the rumbling sound your stomach makes.

• waldosia:

a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life.

• strikhedonia:

the pleasure of being able to say "to hell with it".

• ictuate:

to emphasize

• antematter:

the dream versions of things in your life, which appear totally foreign but are still somehow yours.

• interfation:

act of interrupting another while speaking

• petrichor

the scent of rain on dry earth.

• la douleur exquise (french):

the heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.

• shorpy:

the yearning to move into a photo from years ago.

• gezellig:

cozy, nice, inviting, pleasant, comfortable; connoting time spent with loved ones or togetherness after a long seperation.

• cafuné:

the act of running your fingers through your lover's hair.

• duende:

the mysterious power of art to deeply move or inspire a person.

• saudade:

a nostalgic longing for someone or something that was loved then lost, with the knowledge that it or they may never return again.

• perantique:

very antique or ancient

• lalochezia

the emotional relief gained from using profane language.

• yuputka:

the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin.

• l'appel du vide:

the unexplainable desire to jump when on the edge of a cliff.

• vacivity:

emptiness

• aimonomia:

the fear that learning the name of something (a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger) will somehow ruin it the idea of it.

• fika

drinking coffee along with something sweet.

• kummerspeck

excessive weight gained through stress eating.

• defenestration:

the act of literally throwing a person out of a window.

• serendipity:

finding something nice while looking for something else.

• redamancy:

act of loving in return

• mauerbauertraurigkeit:

the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like, as if all your social tastebuds suddenly went numb.

• gumesservi:

moonlight shining on water.

• heartworm:

a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished.

• jayus

a joke so unfunny and poorly told that you can't help but laugh.

• hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia:

the fear of long words

• fernweh:

an ache for distant places or a sudden longing to travel.

• esprit d'escalier

the witty comeback you think of after the time is past to use it.

• onomatopoeia:

a word that sounds like it's meaning.

• moledro:

a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience.

• culaccino:

the ring left on a table by a cold glass.

• euneirophrenia:

the piece of mind that comes from having pleasant dreams.

• ilunga (southwest congo):

roughly translated as “a person who is ready to forgive and forget any first abuse, tolerate it the second time, but never forgive nor tolerate on the third offense”

• scabulous:

being proud of a scar on your body.

• chryalism:

the tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.

• zenzizenzizenzic:

to the power of eight. ("the square of squares squarely")

• gigil:

the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.

• pygalgia:

a pain in the ass, literally.

• rollover reaction:

when your dream about someone you know skews how you feel about them the next day, an emotion you are unable—and unwilling—to shake.

• litost

a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.

• psithurism:

the sound of wind through trees

• denouement

the final resolution of a plot which ties together all intricacies

• inure

to become accustomed to something, particularly something unpleasan

• lethologica:

when you can't think of a word for something

• tintinnabulation:

the ringing of bells

• mahpiohanzia:

the disappointment of being unable to fly; unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the sky

• infitessmal

infinitely small

• lethobenthos:

the habit of forgetting how important someone is to you until you see them again in person

• starrify:

to decorate with stars; to make into a star

• toska (russian):

roughly translated as “sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness, and nostalgia”