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OBSCURE WORDS FOR EMOTIONS
Abience is the strong urge to avoid a person, thing or object. It describes the desire to withdraw from or avoid new experiences.
Adronitis is the feeling of frustration when you realize how long it takes and how difficult it is to really bond or get to know someone.
Alexithymia is the inability to identify and express or describe one’s feelings.
All-overish is a vaguely uneasy, slightly indisposed feeling.
Amae is a Japanese word for leaning or relying on another person’s help or goodwill.
Alysm is the feeling of restlessness, frustration and boredom that comes from being sick.
Awumbuk is a word from Papua New Guinea that describes an emptiness after visitors depart.
Brabant describes a desire to see how far you can push someone.
Callosity is the lack of feeling or capacity for emotion.
Cherophobia is the feeling something bad will happen if you experience pleasure or joy.
Chrysalism is the feeling of tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
Coprolalia is the urge to use obscene language.
Crapulence is a feeling of sickness from drinking or eating too much.
Déjà-visité (French) is a sensation of knowing your way around somewhere you’ve never been before.
Desiderium is an ardent desire, longing or a feeling of loss or grief for something lost.
Ellipsism is the feeling of sadness someone experiences when realizing that they won’t live to see the future.
Emodiversity is having a variety and relative abundance of the emotions.
Eudaimonia is that feeling you get when you have discovered your "best self.”
Euneirophrenia is the feeling of contentment that comes from waking up from a pleasant dream.
Exulansis is the feeling and tendency to give up telling someone about an experience because of their inability to relate.
Finifugal is the resistance to an end of something.
Greng Jai is a Thai feeling of being reluctant to accept another’s offer of help because of the bother it would be to them.
Huckmuck is the confusion that comes from things not being in their right place.
Hypnagogia is that weird feeling you have when you are somewhere between awake and asleep.
Iktsuarpok is the fidgety feeling when visitors are due to arrive.
Kaukokaipuu is a Finnish word to describe the craving for a different land.
Leucocholy is a state of feeling that accompanies preoccupation with trivial things.
Liberosis is the desire to care less about things.
Lonesome-fret is the feeling of restlessness or unease that comes from being on your own too long.
Malneirophrenia is the feeling of unease or unhappiness that comes from waking up from a nightmare.
Malu is the sudden experience of feeling inferior and awkward around people of higher status.
Misslieness is a Scottish word that describes the solitariness that comes from missing something or someone you love.
Monachopsis is the subtle but persistent feeling of not belonging.
Mudita is the joy felt on hearing of someone else’s good fortune.
Nikhedonia is the feeling of excitement or elation that comes from anticipating success.
Occhiolism is a sudden awareness of how small your perspective truly is.
Opia is the intense feeling of invasive arousal that one feels when making direct eye contact with someone else.
Presque-vu means forgetting or not being able to remember something, but feeling that you could remember it at any minute.
Pronoia is the strange, uncomfortable feeling that everyone’s out to help you.
Schadenfreude is a German word, which means the malicious enjoyment of the misfortunes of others.
Stomaching is a feeling of bitterness, irritation, anger or resentment.
Torschlusspanik is the feeling of panic that time is running out.
Umpty is a feeling of everything being “too much” and all in the wrong way.
Wanderlust is the burning desire to travel the world.
Adronitis is the feeling of frustration when you realize how long it takes and how difficult it is to really bond or get to know someone.
Alexithymia is the inability to identify and express or describe one’s feelings.
All-overish is a vaguely uneasy, slightly indisposed feeling.
Amae is a Japanese word for leaning or relying on another person’s help or goodwill.
Alysm is the feeling of restlessness, frustration and boredom that comes from being sick.
Awumbuk is a word from Papua New Guinea that describes an emptiness after visitors depart.
Brabant describes a desire to see how far you can push someone.
Callosity is the lack of feeling or capacity for emotion.
Cherophobia is the feeling something bad will happen if you experience pleasure or joy.
Chrysalism is the feeling of tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
Coprolalia is the urge to use obscene language.
Crapulence is a feeling of sickness from drinking or eating too much.
Déjà-visité (French) is a sensation of knowing your way around somewhere you’ve never been before.
Desiderium is an ardent desire, longing or a feeling of loss or grief for something lost.
Ellipsism is the feeling of sadness someone experiences when realizing that they won’t live to see the future.
Emodiversity is having a variety and relative abundance of the emotions.
Eudaimonia is that feeling you get when you have discovered your "best self.”
Euneirophrenia is the feeling of contentment that comes from waking up from a pleasant dream.
Exulansis is the feeling and tendency to give up telling someone about an experience because of their inability to relate.
Finifugal is the resistance to an end of something.
Greng Jai is a Thai feeling of being reluctant to accept another’s offer of help because of the bother it would be to them.
Huckmuck is the confusion that comes from things not being in their right place.
Hypnagogia is that weird feeling you have when you are somewhere between awake and asleep.
Iktsuarpok is the fidgety feeling when visitors are due to arrive.
Kaukokaipuu is a Finnish word to describe the craving for a different land.
Leucocholy is a state of feeling that accompanies preoccupation with trivial things.
Liberosis is the desire to care less about things.
Lonesome-fret is the feeling of restlessness or unease that comes from being on your own too long.
Malneirophrenia is the feeling of unease or unhappiness that comes from waking up from a nightmare.
Malu is the sudden experience of feeling inferior and awkward around people of higher status.
Misslieness is a Scottish word that describes the solitariness that comes from missing something or someone you love.
Monachopsis is the subtle but persistent feeling of not belonging.
Mudita is the joy felt on hearing of someone else’s good fortune.
Nikhedonia is the feeling of excitement or elation that comes from anticipating success.
Occhiolism is a sudden awareness of how small your perspective truly is.
Opia is the intense feeling of invasive arousal that one feels when making direct eye contact with someone else.
Presque-vu means forgetting or not being able to remember something, but feeling that you could remember it at any minute.
Pronoia is the strange, uncomfortable feeling that everyone’s out to help you.
Schadenfreude is a German word, which means the malicious enjoyment of the misfortunes of others.
Stomaching is a feeling of bitterness, irritation, anger or resentment.
Torschlusspanik is the feeling of panic that time is running out.
Umpty is a feeling of everything being “too much” and all in the wrong way.
Wanderlust is the burning desire to travel the world.
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