23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

[ElectricBlue]

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
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.
Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

 

[cw5523729]

Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

Not how I expected that sentence to end

 

[Off_base]

Sorry, rejected for suspected use of AI

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Queensryche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

AH: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

 

[TheLobster]

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

A word clearly invented by someone who was tired of hearing that "I could care less" is incorrect and doesn't make sense.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Poe: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

I can't decide if Weltschmerz and Schadenfreude are missing from the list, or are so well known that they don't belong.

Mono no aware totally belongs, but is a little complicated for me to explain in a single sentence.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

A word clearly invented by someone who was tired of hearing that "I could care less" is incorrect and doesn't make sense.

Actually, it does. Caring less would take almost no effort, but in this case I don't even care enough to go to even that little effort ...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

"I could care less."

"I couldn't care less."

"I could be careless."

"I couldn't be careless."


Can that happen in other languages?

 

[cw5523729]

I couldn't not carelessly care less.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'll add a few of my favorites. I received no assistance from AI for these:

Furrvencholia -- the acute sudden sadness brought on by the close presence of furry animals
Mutterbruderwut -- the rage a young man feels against one's brother for being loved more by one's mom, who's looking very good in her yoga pants this morning
Jungaschattenphobia -- the irrational compulsion to run away from one's shadow on a sunny day
Mimesia --long term memory loss after watching mimes perform in public
Doomology -- the cultish belief that one can find important meaning in silly incest stories

 

[ColtonWrites]

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Ah, so that's the feeling evoked by "liminal spaces" (empty bus stations, long corridors, the places between places)

 

[cw5523729]

Doomology -- the cultish belief that one can find important meaning in silly incest stories

What about important meaning in serious incest stories?

 

[SimonDoom]

What about important meaning in serious incest stories?

They're still looking for a word for that.

 

[cw5523729]

They're still looking for a word for that.

Incestuation?

Incestentialism?

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Incestuation?

Incestistential?

Oedignificance perhaps?

 

[GemmaGemmaGemma]

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

I love sonder so much. It is one of my favourite things to think about, especially when I am travelling. I like to ponder sonder

 

[caleb35]

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
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.
Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

I build my life around vellichor.

 

[TheLobster]

They're still looking for a word for that.

Have they tried sitting on mom's lap for inspiration?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Oedignificance perhaps?

Siblingancing

 

[crookedletter]

I love sonder so much. It is one of my favourite things to think about, especially when I am travelling. I like to ponder sonder

You're a sonderphiliac.

 

[Celticlight]

Hedonism - the overwhelming desire to put your head on* or in* things

* Depending on quite how you pronounce that ‘o'

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Adonalsium - The intense desire to consume more dairy products in the hopes of becoming a Greek stud. Or a mythological figure in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe - one of the two.

 

[cw5523729]

Adonalsium - The intense desire to consume more dairy products in the hopes of becoming a Greek stud. Or a mythological figure in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe - one of the two.

I do it in hopes of being spotted by a recruiter to be one of those models on the Got Milk commercials with a milk mustache

Oh, and for the calcium. Strong bones are important.

 

[Bamagan]

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Also known as the internet.