23 Emotions People Feel, But Can’t Explain
A brilliant thinker discovers modern-age emotions and names them.
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1. Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and
complex as your own
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2. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can
feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable
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3. Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place
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4. 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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5. Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops
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6. Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat
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7. Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually
bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet
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8. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even
close friends who you really like
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9. Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in
your head
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10. Chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a
thunderstorm
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11. Vemödalen: The frustration of photographing something amazing when
thousands of identical photos already exist
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12. Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is
listening
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13. Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will
turn out
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14. Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence
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15. Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster
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16. Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience
because people are unable to relate to it
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17. Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone
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18. Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip
only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness
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19. Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make
sense to you anymore
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20. Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits
only one place at a time
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21. Liberosis: The desire to care less about things
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22. 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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23. Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective
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Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and
complex as your own
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Graphic designer John Koenig has spent years trying to fill holes in language that describe the emotions unnamed, which the human fails to communicate. He came up with names for them and describes them on his WEBSITE.
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