20 New Words To Enhance Your Vocabulary

1. Opia:
(n) The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simult
aneously invasive and vulnerable
2. Sonder:
(n) The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your o
wn
3. nouement:
(n) The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn
out, but not being able to tell your past self.
4. Monachopsis:
(n) The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
5. Rubatosis:
(n) The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
6. Vellichor:
(n) The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
7. Mauerbauertraurigkeit:
(n) The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really
like.
8. Kenopsia:
(n) The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with peopl
e but is now abandoned and quiet.
9. Chrysalism:
(n) the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
10. Jouska:
(n) A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
11. Anecdoche:
(n) A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
12. Vemdalen:
(n) The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identica
l photos already exist.
13. Kuebiko:
(n) A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
14. Ellipsism:
(n) A sadness that you ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
15. Exulansis:
(n) The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people ar
e unable to relate to it.
16. Lachesism:
The desire to be struck by disaster
ing in a fire.

to survive a plane crash, or to lose everyth

17. Adronitis:
(n) Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

18. Nodus Tollens:

(n) The realization that the plot of your life doesn t make sense to you anymore.
19. Rckkehrunruhe:
(n) The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading
rapidly from your awareness.
20. Liberosis:
(n) The desire to care less about things.
(h/t: Intelligence is Sexy)