The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - An original lexicon of emotions we don’t have words for http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/ - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Nov 28, 2013
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Stephen Mack,
kate simmons,
jose manuel,
Eivind,
Adriano,
Maitani,
WoH: Professor MOTHRA,
Jenny H.,
Arash,
Todd Hoff,
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sonder -- n. "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."
- Amira
Rückkehrunruhe --
n. "the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all, even though it felt so vivid just days ago—which makes you wish you could smoothly cross-dissolve back into everyday life, or just hold the shutter open indefinitely and let one scene become superimposed on the next, so all your days would run together and you’d never have to call cut."
- Amira
adomania --
n. "the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fantastical names like ‘2013’ are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally knows the answer to the question."
- Amira
"John Koenig is the author of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. He is a freelance designer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His dictionary has been acclaimed by New York Magazine, Washington Post Express, author John Green, blogger Jason Kottke, and the guys from Radiolab."
- Amira
Saudade. https://www.quora.com/What-is...
- Adriano
What's your favorite word and why? http://www.quora.com/Words...
- Amira