• aeipathy — an enduring and consuming passion
    • antiscians — people who live on opposite sides of the world, "whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions"
    • autophile — a person who loves solitude, being alone
    • baisemain — a kiss on the hand
    • eleutheromania — an intense and irresistible desire for freedom
    • eunoia — beautiful thinking; a well mind
    • fjka — a state of mind when there is an aspiration for or to do nothing; a mood where mind and body drift in a totally relaxed state
    • frisson — a shiver of pleasure
    • gumusservi — moonlight shining on water
    • kairosclerosis — the moment you realize that you’re currently happy – consciously trying to savor the feeling – which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste
    • ikigai — a reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning
    • jouska — a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head
    • la douleur exquise — the heart-wrenching pain of wanting the affection of someone unattainable
    • myötähäpeä — the feeling of shame you experience on the behalf of another person or a character when they do something stupid or embarrassing
    • nefelibata — lit. "cloud-walker"; one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination or dreams; one who does not obey the conventions of society, literature, or art
    • oneirataxia — the inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality
    • orphic — mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding
    • retrophile — a lover of past eras and objects
    • retrouvaille — the joy of meeting or finding someone again after a long separation; rediscovery
    • selcouth — unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet marvelous
    • sonder — the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own
    • toska — an inexplicable and dull ache of the soul; a yearning and longing for nothing in particular
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