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IMPORTANT NOTICES
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english

  • aesthete (adj.) - having deep sensitivity of the beauty of art and nature
  • aiscrolatry (n.) - love/worship for smut
  • alexithymia (n.) - inability to express your feelings
  • anhedonia (n.) - the loss of interest and enjoyment in all activities that you once liked; the feeling of not caring anymore
  • asterismos (n.) - "marking with the stars", draws attention to the words it follows
  • cosmogyal (adj.) - whirling around the universe
  • defenestrate (v.) - to throw someone or something out the window
  • drapetomania (n.) - an overwhelming urge to run away
  • druxy (adj.) - something whole on the outside but rotten on the inside
  • dysania (n.) - the state of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning
  • elysium (n.) - a place or condition of ideal happiness
  • enigmatic (adj.) - difficult to interpret/understand; mysterious
  • escapism (n.) - a mental desire to retreat from unpleasant realities through fantasy
  • euneirophrenia (n.) - peace of mind that comes from having pleasant dreams
  • finifugal (adj.) - hating endings
  • induratize (v.) - to make one's own heart hardened or resistant to someone's pleas or advances, or the idea of love
  • lisztomania (n.) - a need to listen to music all the time
  • metanoia (n.) - the journey of changing one's mind, heart or way of life
  • nostalgia (n.) - a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time
  • nubivagant (adj.) - moving among clouds
  • nyctophilia (n.) - the love of darkness/night
  • orphic (n.) - mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinance
  • redamancy (n.) - the act of loving the one who loves you
  • selcouth (n.) - unfamiliar, strange, yet marvelous
  • serein (n.) - light, fine rain that falls from a clear sky on sunset or in the early hours of night; evening serenity
  • sonder (n.) - the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness
  • swag (n.) - something that i have
  • viridity (n.) - naive innocence
  • vorfreude (n.) the joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures
  • wanderlust (n.) - desire to travel or wander

chinese

  • 不甘寂寞 buganjimo (v.) - to be unwilling to be lonely or overlooked; to seek to move on from loneliness
  • 緣分 yuanfan (n.) - relationship bonded by fate or destiny

filipino

  • gigil (n.) - the irresistible urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute and adorable
  • kilig (n.) - the delightful feeling that sends shivers of pleasure down the spine as one encounters something romantic

welsh

  • hiraeth (n.) - homesickness for a home that you may never return to/never existed; yearning and nostalgia for lost things in the past

portuguese

  • cafuné (v.) - running your fingers through the hair of someone you love
  • saudade (n.) - nostalgic longing to be near something/someone that is distant or that has been loved and lost; "love that remains"

korean

  • 아쉬움 aswium (n.) - mingled feeling of disappointment, frustration, and regret that forms from an unsatisfactory situation

scottish

  • caim (n.) - an invisible circle of protection that reminds you that you are safe and loved

french

  • l'esprit de l'escalier (n.) - the feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said
  • la douleur exquise (n.) - the heart-wrenching pain of wanting the affection of someone unattainable
  • retrouvailles (n.) - the happiness of meeting or finding someone again after long separation
  • yaourter (v.) - attempting to speak or sing in a foreign language that one doesn't know very well - often involves throwing in nonsense sounds or words when one needs to fill in the blank

german

  • abendrot (n.) - the color of the sky while the sun is setting
  • schadenfreude (n.) - the pleasure and slight satisfaction derived from the misfortunes of others
  • sturmfrei (n.) - "stormfree"; the freedom of not being watched by a parent or superior; being alone at a place and have the ability to do what one wants

japanese

  • ひきこもり hikikomori (n.) - an adolescent who has withdrawn from social life, often obsessed with television, internet and video games, and rarely ever leaves one's room
  • ボケッと boketo (n.) - the act of gazing vacantly in the distance without thinking
  • 恋の予感 koi no yokan (n.) - the sense one has upon meeting someone that they will fall in love with each other
  • 物の哀れ mono no aware (n.) - awareness of the sadness of existence
  • 花笑み hanaemi (n.) - a smile that is as beautiful as blooming flowers
aug 29 2013 ∞
feb 7 2016 +