• adoxography: eloquent praise of a worthless thing
  • aesthete: a person who has or who affects a highly developed appreciation of beauty, esp in poetry and the visual arts
  • afflatus:sudden rush of divine or poetic inspiration
  • amatorculist: a pitiful or insignificant lover
  • anagogy: mystical interpretation; hidden spiritual sense of words
  • antiphon: a devotional piece of music sung responsively; a response or reply
  • antiquer: a person who finishes furniture or objects so they have the appearance of an antique
  • antiquus: 1. old, ancient aged, 2.time-honoured, 3.simple, classic venerable
  • atelophobia: the fear of not being good enough or imperfection
  • atheling: a nobleman or prince, especially the heir to a throne
  • auctoritas: in the middle ages, a person whose ideas were considered perfect and unquestionable
  • avant la lettre: lit. ‘before the letter;’ before a specific thing, idea or entity existed; ahead of its time.
  • barmecide: something illusory or imaginary and therefore disappointing, or a person who offers such a thing.
  • basorexia: a craving to kiss.
  • belletrist: literature created for the sake of art or aesthetics; excessively refined literature, often limited in substance or scope
  • benthos: the bottom of a sea or lake
  • bibliophile: a person who collects or is fond of books
  • bijouterie: trinkets of jewelry, small twinkling things
  • castellated: like or resembling a castle
  • chasmophile: lover of nooks & crannies
  • cingulomania: a desire to hold another in one’s arms.
  • curlicue: the elegant flourish in one’s writing, particularly in cursive of calligraphy
  • cynosure: literally, polestar; figuratively, focus, center of attention, interest or attraction
  • daydreaming: fantasizing while awake
  • demilune: shaped like a crescent moon or half-moon
  • diablerie: witchcraft; devilry
  • diaphanous: filmy, like a silky and translucent piece of cloth
  • duffife: to lay a bottle on its side so as to drain any last drops of liquid
  • elengeness: sadness; loneliness; melancholy
  • fabulate: to engage in the composition of fables or tales, esp. of a fantastic nature
  • flaneur: a soulful person who wanders through cities
  • florilegium: a collection of writings/a portfolio of flower pictures
  • florulent: flowering, blossoming; flowery
  • forelsket: the euphoria experienced when first falling in love
  • gaucherie: a socially tactless or awkward act
  • gemütlichkeit: coziness; safety; security; warmth; contentedness; belonging
  • ghazal: a type of poetry devoted to unattainable love; an expression of love
  • inchoate: only partly existent; incipient; imperfectly formed or formulated; formless
  • incunabula:a book (or other document) printed during the era when printing was in its infancy, specifically before 1501
  • komorebi: when sunlight filters through the trees - the interplay between the light and the leaves
  • logolepsy: an obsession with words
  • lypophrenia: a vague feeling of sadness seemingly without cause
  • mahmihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves
  • mellisonant: pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"
  • meraki: the word may be quite close to “ardor,” but is exclusively used when referring to one’s own creations. for example, when making a piece of furniture or cooking a dish, and really loving what you do, putting all your effort and creativity into it, you can be said to be doing it with “meraki”
  • millihelen: a unit of measure of pulchritude, corresponding to the amount of beauty required to launch one ship
  • nepenthes: a drug referred to in homer's odyssey as bringing relief from anxiety or grief; hence, any substance seen as bringing welcome forgetfulness or relief
  • palimpsest: a document which has been erased and written over, usually used of parchments
  • petrichor: the smell of rain on dry ground
  • phosphene: a phenomenon characterized by the experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye
  • pochemuchka: someone who asks a lot of questions
  • presque vu: the inability to summon a familiar word
  • psithurism: the sound of rustling leaves
  • quaint: pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.
  • quaintrelle: (derivate of quaint)a woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures
  • sabaism: the worship of stars
  • sempiternal: eternal, everlasting, endless, enduring forever; having no known beginning or end soigné carefully or elegantly done
  • serendipity: an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident
  • solastalgia: (environmental change) a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home, but the environment is changed.
  • syzygy: the alignment of three celestial bodies in a straight line, commonly the earth, sun and moon
  • the moist star: an old english term for the moon which rules the tides
  • threnody: a song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy
  • toska: no single word in english renders all the shades of toska. at its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. at less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. in particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. at the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.
  • treasure/treasury: a collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc
  • ubuntu; xhosa: "i am what i am because of what we all are"
  • vade-mecum: something regularly carried about by a given person; also, a reference book
  • vemod: tender sadness or pensive melancholy
  • viatic: of or pertaining to traveling or a journey
  • waldeinsamkeit: the feeling of being alone in the woods
  • wallflower: a person who is socially awkward, especially one who does not dance at a party due to shyness
  • whimsical: given to whimsy; capricious; odd; peculiar; playful; light-hearted or amusing
  • cryptomnesia (from the Greek krypton + mnesis + ia): literally, hidden memory, is unconscious memory or ancestral memory, or even subliminal memory. It is an aspect or division of Pantomnesia, consisting essentially of unconscious memory and unconscious psychological processes.
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