23 Emotions People Feel, But Can’t Explain
Mizuka Published 06/14/2015
A brilliant thinker discovers modern-age emotions and names them.
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2. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable
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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
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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11. Vemödalen: The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist
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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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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
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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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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