- agastopia (n.) admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
- alexithymia (n.) The inability to verbalize your emotions or lack of emotional response. Difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotion. A failure to express feelings either verbally or non-verbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally require an emotional response. Poor modulation of feelings, significantly reduced intensity in emotional expression
- apodyopsis (n.) the act of mentally undressing someone
- apodysophilia (n.) feverish desire to undress
- athazagoraphobia (n.) the fear of forgetting or being forgotten about
- aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
- basorexia (n.) a strong craving or hunger for kissing
- billet-doux (n.) a love letter
- cafuné (v.) running your fingers through your lover’s hair
- cheiloproclitic (adj.) having an erotic attraction to a person’s lips
- chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
- clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
- dysania (n.) the state of finding it extremely difficult to get out of bed in the morning
- effleurage (v.) “to stroke as one would a flower”; (n.) a series of light stroking touches
- ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
- euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound.
- hanaemi (花笑み) (n.) a smile that is as beautiful as blooming flowers
- introspection (n.) the examination of one’s own thoughts, impressions, and feelings, especially for long periods
- kairos (καιρός) (n.) the moment when everything just falls perfectly into places
- la douleur exquise (n.) the exquisite pain of wanting the affection of someone you know you can never have
- l'esprit de l'esclier - that feeling you get when you leave a conversation and think of all the things you should have said
- limerence (n.) an involuntary state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one’s feelings reciprocated
- mnemonic (n.) something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula
- noceur (n.) one who sleeps late or not at all; or, one who stays out late to revel or party
- nyctophilia (n.) an abnormal preference for the night over the day
- nyctophobia (n.) an acute fear of the darkness or a dark environment
- petrichor (n.) the smell of rain on dry ground
- pluviophile (n.) a lover of rain
- quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
- raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
- redamancy - act of loving in return.
- salirophilia (n.) a sexual fetish or paraphilia that involves deriving erotic pleasure from soiling or disheveling the object of one’s desire, usually an attractive person. it may involve tearing or damaging their clothing, covering them in mud or filth, or messing their hair or makeup. the fetish does not involve harming or injuring the subject, only their appearance
- sapiosexual (n.) a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others
- sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
- serendipity (n.) an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident
- susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
- ultracrepidarian (n.) a person who gives opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge
- wabi-sabi (侘寂) (n.) the discovery of beauty in imperfection; the acceptance of the cycle of life and death
- wanderlust (n.) a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about
- yuánfèn (缘分) (n.) a relationship brought by fate or destiny
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