"Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language — to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for."
— John Koenig, author of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
select below
obscure sorrows
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- adronitis
- anchorage
- anecdoche
- catoptric tristesse
- chrysalism
- degrassé
- gnasche
- gnossienne
- hanker sore
- hiybbprqag
- kairosclerosis
- liberosis
- mal de coucou
- moledro
- monachopsis
- nighthawk
- occhiolism
- opia
- sonder
- the bends
- vellichor
- vemödalen