Exulansis is a term that was coined on the website "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows," created by John Koenig. It's not a word you'll find in traditional dictionaries, but rather a neologism (a newly coined word or expression).
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows aims to invent words for emotions and experiences that don't have readily available words in the English language. Exulansis, as defined on the website, is described as "the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness—which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical, wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a place to land."
In essence, exulansis captures the feeling of not being able to effectively communicate or share a personal experience with others because they can't empathize or understand it, leading the memory or emotion to become isolated and distant. It's a term that attempts to capture a specific, complex emotion or experience that many people may have felt at some point in their lives.
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