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"I had a sonder, a realization that the random girl sitting next to me inside of Starbucks might have a fantastic life or she might be dealing with a very ill family member." - John Buysse, "On 2nd thought, we do have linked lives":Origin:
Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. Related to German sonder - ("special") and French sonder ("to probe
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