10 words that describe obscure emotions
Sonder: the feeling when you realize that everyone you see, everyone who passes you by has their own complex life.
Kuebiko: an exhausted feeling — both physically and mentally — that happens after acts of violence takes place, whether you witness it actively or passively.
Zenosyne: the feeling that time keeps going by faster and faster as you grow up. 10 minutes seemed like an eternity in childhood whereas years move by so quickly as an adult.
Liberosis: the feeling, the desire to care less about things.
Chrysalism: the relaxed, calm feeling you have when you’re inside and it’s storming outside.
Jouska: when you play a conversation over and over in your head, but it never happened — it’s a hypothetical conversation.
Monachopsis: the small but persistent feeling that you’re out of place.
Klexos: the art of dwelling on the past — and it really is art if you think about.
Lachesism: the desire to be struck by disaster — to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall — which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp.
Rubatosis: the hard-to-explain, unsettling feeling you get when you actually start noticing your own heart, and its own beats.
