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  • La vie en rose

(french) life through rose-colored glasses.

  • Flâner

(v.) the art of leisurely strolling the streets of Paris, without any particular goal or destination, simply for the pleasure of soaking up the beauty of the city.

  • Petrichor

(n.) the scent of rain on dry earth.

  • Wonderwall

(adj.) someone you find yourself thinking about all the time; a person you are completely infatuated with.

  • Advesperascit

(v.) the approaching dark; the evening draws near.

  • Sonder

(n.) the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

  • L’appel du vide

(french) the call of the void; the sudden inexplicable impulse to jump when in a high place or standing on a high ledge.

  • Acatalepsy

(n.) the impossibility of comprehending the universe;the belief that human knowledge can never have true certainly.

  • Scintilla

(n.) a tiny, brilliant flash or spark; a small thing; a barely-visible trace.

  • Lovely

(adj.) full of love; loving; inspiring love or affection.

  • A l’ouest

(adj.) someone a little strange or different; who thinks outside of the box.

  • Sillage

(n.) the scent that lingers in air, the trail left in water, the impression made in space after something or someone has been and gone; the trace of someone’s perfume.

  • Nubivagant

(adj.) wandering in the clouds; moving through the air.

  • Neologize

(v.) to make or use new words; crate new meanings for existing words.

  • Retrouvailles

(n.) the happiness of meeting again after a long time.

  • Dustsceawung

(n.) “contemplation of the dust”; reflection on former civilizations and peoples, and on the knowledge that all things will turn to dust.

  • Trouvaille

(n.) a valuable discovery, or a lucky find; something lovely discovered by chance; a windfall.

  • Pulchritudinous

(adj.) breathtaking, heartbreaking beauty.

  • Monachopsis

(n.) the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

  • Serein

(n.) the fine, light rain that falls from a clear sky at sunset or in the early hours of night; evening serenity.

  • Finifugal

(adj.) hating endings; of someone who tries to avoid or prolong the final moment of a story, relationship, or some other journey.

  • Natsukashii

(adj.) of some small thing that brings you suddenly, joyously back to fond memories, not with a wisful longing for what's past, but with an appreciation of the good times.

nov 14 2016 ∞
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