23 Emotions people feel, but canāt explain
Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Opia:Ā The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
Monachopsis:Ā The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
Ćnouement:Ā The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
Vellichor:Ā The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
Rubatosis:Ā The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
Kenopsia:Ā The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
Mauerbauertraurigkeit:Ā The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
Jouska:Ā 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:Ā A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
Ellipsism:Ā A sadness that youāll never be able to know how history will turn out.
Kuebiko:Ā A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
Lachesism:Ā The desire to be struck by disaster ā to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
Exulansis:Ā The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Adronitis:Ā 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:Ā The realization that the plot of your life doesnāt make sense to you anymore.
Onism:Ā The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
Liberosis:Ā The desire to care less about things.
Altschmerz:Ā Weariness with the same old issues that youāve always had ā the same boring flaws and anxieties that youāve been gnawing on for years.
Occhiolism:Ā The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.