A Quick Helpful List of Emotions We Feel but Fail to Explain

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Eric Lund
Apr 22, 2019 11:00 PM EDT

Life is full of moments and feelings that we seem to have trouble explaining in one word. Luckily, someone has come up with one. For example, if you've ever been lost in a big loud anecdoche and all of a sudden you're overcome with rubatosis, you might find yourself having a jouska.

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    Text - 23 Emotions people feel, but can't explain 1. Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own. 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. 4. Enouement: 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 wis
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    Text - 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. 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
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    Text - 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 14. Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence. 15. Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster -to survive a plane crash, or lose everything in a fire 16. Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. 17. Adronitis: Frustratio
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    Text - 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. 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
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