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Have you ever experienced a strange feeling that you are not in the right place, or sadness due to the fact that you will never know how your great-great-great-grandchildren will live? Some of these complex feelings already have names. Perhaps in one of these emotions you will recognize the one for which you lacked the word.
1. Opium
This is the name given to the excitement and intrusion that we experience when we exchange a gaze with someone. Eye-to-eye contact causes a burst of energy. But the interpretation of this experience depends on the circumstances. If we perceive the other as a threat, it will be unpleasant. And if two people experience mutual sympathy, then this look will give pleasure.
2. Deja vu
This feeling is familiar to almost everyone: as if we had been here before, or as if the same event was repeated a second time. Psychologists who study memory see the reason that our past experience in some ways seems similar to the current experience. About 75% of people report experiencing déjà vu.
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3.Ellipsism
This is the feeling of sadness experienced by someone who suddenly realizes that he will not see the future. For example, an old person may be sad that he will not see his newborn grandson grow up.
4. Chrisalism
Do you know that special feeling of security, bliss and peace that you can experience when you find yourself in a warm and dry house while bad weather is raging outside? It’s like being in your mother’s stomach again … This word is derived from chrysalis – a chrysalis (the developmental stage of a butterfly).
5. Adronitis
This is the annoyance we feel when we make an interesting new acquaintance, if at the same time we clearly understand that in order to fully know this wonderful person, it will take a long, long time. We want it to happen faster, but we know it’s impossible. The first weeks will have to chat about trifles in the psychological “hallway”, moving closer to the center of the house with each new conversation. And I want it to be the other way around: first to share the most important secrets, and then move outward, moving on to small talk, so that years later, having created a real deep intimacy, ask a friend where he is from and what he does. In ancient Greece, andronitis is the male half of the house.
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6. Liberosis
The desire to worry less about various reasons, to loosen control. As we become more mature, we take on more and more responsibility. We want to play our own life like a ball that can be easily held in the air with a few touches. Liberosis is the feeling of liberation that we experience when we think “I wish I could become a child again, knowing neither worries nor troubles.
7.Enuent
Have you ever wanted to go back in time to tell yourself about the future? We experience this bitter feeling when we finally find ourselves in the future and receive answers to all the questions that once tormented us. At this moment, we want to go back in time and share with ourselves what we have learned, pass on the message and encourage our younger and insecure selves.
8.Zenozina
Why, the further we live, the shorter each next year seems to us? At first, we experience life from the outside as something that happens to other people. But gradually, life begins to accelerate, and there is a feeling that every year the birthday comes a day earlier, and each next year costs a little less, taking into account inflation. The name for this feeling is formed by combining the name of Zeno (the author of the famous paradox about the impossibility of movement) and Mnemosyne, who personified memory in Greek mythology.
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9. Žuska
This is a conversation that scrolls through our heads when, for example, we are looking for new arguments for an already completed dispute or imagine how we will ask the boss for a raise, what he will say to us and what we will then object to him. In Russian, this feeling is also known as “wit on the stairs.”
10. Fugu condition
A psychological state in which an individual walks, does something and talks, but is not aware of it and then does not remember his actions. Fugu can appear due to the use of alcohol or drugs.
Other words can be found in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig. The dictionary contains invented words that could fill in the gaps in the language, give a name to the emotions that we experience, but cannot express.
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