{"id":4152,"date":"2026-01-14T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:22:11","slug":"neologisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/neologisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Neologisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A facet of lexical innovation, neologisms describe emotions people feel, but can\u2019t explain. The below collected from the interwebs long time ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Sonder: The realisation that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. \u00c9nouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Vem\u00f6dalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Ellipsism: A sadness that you\u2019ll never be able to know how history will turn out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster \u2013 to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. R\u00fcckkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Nodus Tollens: The realisation that the plot of your life doesn\u2019t make sense to you anymore.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you\u2019ve always had \u2013 the same boring flaws and anxieties that you\u2019ve been gnawing on for years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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