23 Emotions People Feel, But Can’t Explain
A brilliant thinker discovers modern-age emotions and names them.
A brilliant thinker discovers modern-age emotions and names them.
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Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own
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Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable
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Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place
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Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self
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Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops
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Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat
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Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet
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Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like
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Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head
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Chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm
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Vemödalen: The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist
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Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
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Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out
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Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence
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Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster
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Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it
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Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone
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Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness
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Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore
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Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time
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Liberosis: The desire to care less about things
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Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years
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Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective
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