- aoir le cafard (french) - to be so bored you become enveloped in depression
- acosmist - one who believes that nothing exists
- apodyopsis - the act of mentally undressing someone
- aureate - pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets
- brontide - the low rumbling of distant thunder
- cataglottism - kissing with tongue, French kissing
- charientism - an artfully veiled insult
- dalliance - a brief love affair
- drapetomania - an overwhelming urge to runaway
- dwale - to wander about deliriously
- dysania - the state of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning
- dysphoria - an unwell feeling
- escapism - a mental desire to retreat from unpleasant realities through fantasy
- esoteric - understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest
- eumoirous - happiness due to being honest and wholesome
- lalochezia - the use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress, pain, or emotion
- l’esprit de escalier (French) - the feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said
- lygerastia - condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are off
- lypophrenia - a feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause
- metathesiophobia - fear of change
- mimp - to speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lips
- mamihlapinatapai - a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin
- nelipot - one who walks without shoes
- paralian - a person who lives near the sea
- petrichor - smell of rain on dry ground; pleasant smell of rain after a dry spell
- sabaism - the worship of stars
- sanctuary - a small safe place in a troubling world
- saudade - (portuguese) refers to the feeling of longing for something or something that you love and which is lost
- tarantism - the urge to overcome melancholy by dancing
- wanderlust - a desire to travel, to understand one’s very existence
- ya’aburnee - (arabic) literally translated as “you bury me.” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another because of how difficult it would be to live without them
- yugen - an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words
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