𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀 ( writing tips. )

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23 EMOTIONS THAT PEOPLE FEEL, BUT CAN'T EXPLAIN

• sonder: the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own

• opia: the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable

• monachopsis: the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place

• énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self

• vellichor: the strange wistfullness of used bookshops

• rubatosis: the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat

• kenopsia: the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet

• mauerbauertraurigkeit: the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like

• jouska: a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head

• chrysalim: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm

• vemödalen: the frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist

• anecdoche: a conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

• ellipism: a sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out

• kuebiko: a state of exhaustion inspired by scts of senseless violence

• lacheism: the desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire

• exulansis: the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it

• adronitis: frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone

• rückkehrunruhe: the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness

• nodus tollens: the realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore

• onism: the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time

• liberosis: the desire to care about things

• altschmerz: weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing on for years

• occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective