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23 Emotions People Feel, But Can’t Explain

A brilliant thinker discovers modern-age emotions and names them.
1. Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own
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2. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable
3. Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place
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4. Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self
5. Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops
6. Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat
7. Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet
8. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like
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9. Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head
10. Chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm
11. Vemödalen: The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist
12. Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
13. Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out
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14. Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence
15. Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster
16. Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it
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17. Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone
18. Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness
19. Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore
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20. Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time
21. Liberosis: The desire to care less about things
22. 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
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23. Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective
Graphic designer John Koenig has spent years trying to fill holes in language that describe the emotions unnamed, which the human fails to communicate. He came up with names for them and describes them on his WEBSITE.
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