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17 Emotions

This document lists 17 obscure words that describe subtle human emotions or experiences. Some of the words describe feelings of being out of place or disconnection from others, such as monachopsis, sonder, and exulansis. Others relate to experiences of nostalgia, isolation, or contemplating history and the future, like ruckkehrunruhe, kenopsia, and ellipsism. The list aims to provide language for subtle and complex feelings that are difficult to articulate.

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17 Emotions

This document lists 17 obscure words that describe subtle human emotions or experiences. Some of the words describe feelings of being out of place or disconnection from others, such as monachopsis, sonder, and exulansis. Others relate to experiences of nostalgia, isolation, or contemplating history and the future, like ruckkehrunruhe, kenopsia, and ellipsism. The list aims to provide language for subtle and complex feelings that are difficult to articulate.

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1. Ruckkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to
find it fading rapidly from your heart.

2. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can
simultaneously feel invasive and vulnerable.

3. Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

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

5. Enouement: The bitter-sweetness of having arrived in future, seeing how things


turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

6. Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

7. Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

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

9. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close


friends you really like.

10. Ellipsism: A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn
out.

11. Chysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

12. Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your
head.

13. Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

14. Lachesism: The desire to be struck by a disaster - to survive a plane crash or


lose everything in a fire.

15. Exulansis: Tendency to give up talking about an experience because people are
unable to relate to it.

16. Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

17. Occhiolism: The awareness of how small your perspective is.

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