The mystery of what goes on behind the scenes of your social life, wondering about all the back channels and private histories and secondary affiliations that you might never hear about.

Coined 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.


PHOTO CREDIT : MARIO PURISIC

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