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- euphony -- a bearable or agreeable sound.
- quixotic -- extremely romantic and chivalrous.
- phalerate -- decorated; made beautiful.
- betwixt -- between.
- crepuscule -- twilight; dusk.
- epicaricacy -- taking pleasure in other’s misfortune; schadenfreud.
- nepenthe -- something, such as a drink or a drug, capable of making one forget suffering.
- exosculate -- to kiss fervently or heartily.
- lacuna -- a blank space or missing part.
- euonym -- a pleasing or beautiful name.
- quarender -- a dark red apple.
- halcyon -- calm and peaceful; tranquil. Prosperous; gold.
- soigné -- showing sophisticated elegance; fashionable. Well-groomed; polished.
- lypophrenia -- a feeling of saddness seemingly without a cause.
- drapetomania -- an overwhelming urge to runaway.
- 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.
- dactylion -- the tip of a middle finger.
- nudiustertian -- pertaining to the day before yesterday.
- petrichor -- the smell of rain on dry ground.
- dendolatry -- worship of trees.
- lethologica -- the inability to recall a precise word for something.
- psithurism -- a whispering sound, i.e: the sound of wind in trees, or rustling leaves.
- witzelsucht -- a feeble attempt at humour.
- epeolatry -- worship of words.
- tacenda -- things not to be mentioned.
- naupathia -- sea sickness.
- baisemain -- a kiss on the hand.
- delenda -- things to be deleted or destroyed.
- orphrey -- gold or rich embroidery.
- phrontistery -- a thinking place; a place of study.
- celeste -- sky-blue.
- aureate -- the fanciful and flowery words of poets.
- rosarium -- a rose garden.
- eudaemonia -- true happiness.
- eremite -- a hermit; someone who lives in solitude.
- eidolon -- a phantom, or specter; a shadow of mere existence.
- tristifical -- causing to be sad or mournful.
- cosmogyral -- whirling around the universe.
- nepheliad -- cloud-nymph.
- gardeviance -- chest for valuables; a travelling trunk.
- sparsile -- of a star, not included in any constellation.
- perantique -- very antique or ancient.
- redamancy -- act of loving in return.
- starrify -- to decorate with stars; to make into a star.
- paralian -- a person who lives near the seat.
- sabaism -- the worship of stars.
- dysphoria -- an unwell feeling.
- aubade -- a love song which is sung at dawn.
- eumorious -- happiness due to being honest and wholesome.
- virulent -- spiteful, invidious; highly poisonous.
- vitiate -- to weaken one's morality; to corrupt the mind.
- anathema -- a person or thing that is accursed, or damned; detested, rejected, or banished.
- parsimonious -- excessively careful, or worrisome with money; to be miserly.
- dilettante -- an amateur; someone who loves the arts but knows little of such.
- tryst -- a secret, clandestine meeting, especially between two lovers.
- amaranthine -- undying, immortal; eternally beautiful. A deep purple-red.
- kalopsia -- the delusion that things are more beautiful than they are.
- weltschmerz -- sentimental melancholy; a sorrow that one accepts as inevitable; romantic, poetical sadness.
- velleity -- the weakest form of free will; only a slight desire, or wish not followed by any action to obtain it.
- aphilophrenia -- someone who feels desperately that they are unloved and unwanted.
- vaniloquence -- words spoken in vain, or foolishness.
- athazagoraphobia -- the fear of being forgotten, ignored, or replaced.
- reticent -- not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.
- naiad -- a sprite or mermaid that dwells in rivers or springs.
- amphigory -- complete nonsense; a poetry that looks or sounds good but actually has no meaning.
- eccedentesiast -- a person who fakes a smile.
- estivation -- to go away for the summer.
- dolorifuge -- something that cures grief.
- rhadamanthine -- being completely fair and incorruptible.
- acronycal -- occuring at sunset.
- obliviscence -- forgetfulness.
- aimonomia -- fear that learning the name of something—a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger—will somehow ruin it, transforming a lucky discovery into a conceptual husk pinned in a glass case, which leaves one less mystery to flutter around you.
- apodyopis -- the act of mentally undressing someone.
- tarantism -- the urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.
- cataglottism -- kissing with tongue.
- basorexia -- an overwhelming desire to kiss.
- agelast -- a person who never laughs.
- wanweird -- an unhappy fate.
- dystopia -- an imaginary place of total misery.
- malapert -- clever in manners of speech.
- anagapesis -- the feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did.
- duende -- unusual power to charm or attract.
- concilliabule -- a secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot.
- lygerastia -- the condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.
- ayurnamat -- the philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.
- ambedo -- a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life
- kilig -- the rush of inexplicable joy one feels after seeing or experiencing something romantic.
- hamartia -- a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of the tragic hero or heroine.
- cacoethes scribendi -- insatiable desire to write.
- quiescent a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
- chimerical -- merely imaginary or fanciful.
- susurrus -- a whispering or rustling sound.
- raconteur -- one who excels in story-telling.
- clinquant -- glittering; tinsel-like.
- ephemeral -- lasting a very short time.
- sempiternal -- everlasting, eternal.
- euphonious -- pleasing; sweet in sound.
- billet-doux -- a love-letter.
- ailurophile -- cat lover.
- dulcet -- sweet, sugary.
- ebullience -- bubbling enthusiasm.
- effervescent -- bubbly.
- efflorescence -- flowering, blooming.
- evanescent -- vanishing quickly.
- opia -- the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable—their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque—as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there’s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you’re looking in or looking out.
- luminescence -- n.; the emission of light by a substance that has not been heated, as in fluorescence and phosphorescence.
- quiescent -- a.; in a state or period of inactivity or dormancy.
- ethereal a.; extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
- mercurial -- a.; 1. (of a person) subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind. 2. of or containing the element mercury.
- ephemeral -- a.; lasting for a very short time.
- chrysalism -- n.; the amniotic 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.
- amaranthine -- immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour.
- azure -- light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue.
- celadon -- pale green; pale green glazed pottery.
- erytharean -- reddish colour.
- isabelline -- greyish-yellow.
- mazarine -- rich blue or reddish-blue colour.
- saffron -- orange-yellow
- sarcoline -- flesh-colored
- smaragdine -- emerald-green
- viridian -- chrome green
- zinnober -- chrome green
- oblivion -- n.; the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening.
- whimsical -- a.; playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.
- quintessence -- n.; the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.
- serendipity -- n.; the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
- lullaby -- n.; a quiet, gentle song sung to send a child to sleep.
- whisper -- v.; speak very softly using one's breath without one's vocal cords, especially for the sake of privacy.
- elixir -- n.; a magical or medicinal potion.
- nemophilist -- n.; One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
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