• The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like—as if all your social tastebuds suddenly went numb, leaving you unable to distinguish cheap politeness from the taste of genuine affection, unable to recognize its rich and ambiguous flavors, its long and delicate maturation, or the simple fact that each tasting is double-blind.

  • 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 COTTONBRO
Bookmark (0)

 

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

Silience

The brilliant artistry hidden all around you. Its’s strange that something so vibrant as art is so nearly…
Read More

Vellichor

The strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time. It’s filled with…
Read More

Apomakrysmenophobia

The fear that your connections with people are ultimately shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial at the…
Read More

Scabulous

Proud of a scar on your body, which is an autograph signed to you by a world grateful…
Read More

Midding

Feeling the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it. Hovering on the perimeter of a…
Read More

Ambedo

A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a…
Read More

Fata Organa

A flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room, idly locked in the middle of…
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

Hanker Sore

Finding a person so attractive it actually kinda pisses you off. Coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary…
Read More

Antematter

The dream versions of things in your life, which appear totally foreign but are still somehow yours—your anteschool,…
Read More

Ringlorn

The wish that the modern world felt as epic as the one depicted in old stories and folktales—a…