Human emotion is complex and sometimes seems indescribable, and yet we try.
Some of the words below you may already know, some you may not. Each one defines a feeling so complicated but recognisable.
Scroll through the words below and see if you have felt any of these recently…
Sonder
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The realisation that each passerby has a life as vivid and as complex as your own.
Opia
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The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which feels both invasive and vulnerable.
Monachopis
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The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
Énouement
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The bittersweet feeling of having arrived in the future and seen how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
Vellichor
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The wistfulness of used bookshops.
Rubatosis
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An unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Kenopsia
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An eerie feeling of a place that should be bustling with people but is totally empty.
Maurbauertraurigkeit
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The urge to push people away, even your close friends and family.
Jouska
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That hypothetical conversation you cannot help but play out in your head.
Chrysalism
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Tranquility of being indoors during a storm.
Vemõdalen
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The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of photos already exist of the same thing.
Anecdoche
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A conversation in which everyone is talking but no one is listening.
Ellipsism
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A sadness upon realising you will never know how the future will turn out.
Kuebiko
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Exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
Lachesism
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The desire to be hit by disaster, such as a place crash, and lose everything.
Exulansis
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Dropping a conversation about your experience because no one can relate.
Adronitis
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Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
Rückkehrunruhe
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Returning home after an immersive trip only for it to fade rapidly from memory.
Nodus Tollens
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Realising the plot of your life does not make sense any more.
Onism
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The frustration of being stuck in one body inhabiting just one place at a time.
Liberosis
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Wanting to care less about things.
Occhiolism
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An awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
Altschmerz
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Weariness at the same old issues, same flaws you have always had, and the same anxieties you have always suffered with.
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