• A moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored—an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.

  • Coined in 2012 by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a project, to create a compendium of invented words for every emotion we might all experience but don’t yet have a word for.
GREG RAKOZY xxxx xxxxx
Bookmark (0)
ClosePlease loginn

 

Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links or advertisements in the wordket website are affiliate links or advertisements, meaning, at no additional cost to you. We will earn a commission, if you click through and make a purchase. Thank you 🙂

Leave a Reply

You May Also Like
Read More

Flashover

The moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the…
Read More

Dead Reckoning

To find yourself bothered by someone’s death more than you would have expected. As if you assumed they…
Read More

Aimonomia

Fear that learning the name of something—a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger—will somehow ruin it, transforming a…
Read More

Heartworm

A relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago…
Read More

Rückkehrunruhe

The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to…
Read More

Occhiolism

The awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn’t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at…
Read More

Dystoria

A feeling of irrelevance from the broader forces of history; the sense that your life has no relationship…
Read More

Exulansis

The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. Whether…
Read More

Anemoia

Imagine stepping through the frame into a sepia-tinted haze, where you could sit on the side of the…
Read More

Dialecstatic

Hearing a person with a thick accent pronounce a certain phrase—the Texan “cooler,” the South African “bastard,” the…
Read More

Énouement

The bitter sweetness of having arrived here in the future, where you can finally get the answers to…
Read More

Slipcast

The default expression that your face automatically reverts to when idle—amused, melancholic, pissed off—which occurs when a strong…