There are some feelings and emotions you feel that you somehow can’t express in words. You struggle to find a name for them to share the feeling with others. But if you thought these feelings will go unexpressed, don’t worry. Here are feelings you never knew had a name, to help you express yourself better, the next time around!
1. Limerence
The state of being infatuated, more than having just a ‘crush’ on another person.
2. Liberosis
The desire to care less about things. To be carefree and to live in the moment.
3. Monachopsis
The subtle but continuous feeling of feeling out of place. When you know you’re not supposed to be where you are.
4. Vellichor
The strange yearning of being in a used bookstore because that smell…
5. Jouska
The hypothetical conversation you play out in your head. With fictional characters, places and situations.
6. Petrichor
The undeniably beautiful smell of the earth after rain. #Mittikikhushboo
7. Hiraeth
It is a longing for one’s homeland, but it’s not mere homesickness. It’s an expression of the bond one feels with one’s home country.
8. Cafune
The act of caressing or tenderly running fingers through a loved one’s hair.
9. Vemodalen
The frustration of photographing something amazing and knowing the fact that 1000s of identical photos like that exist.
10. Paresthesia
That pins and needles feeling you have in your leg or hands after a long duration of it being inactive.
11. Numinous
A personal and powerful feeling of being overwhelmed and really inspired.
12. Sillage
The degree to which a perfume’s fragrance lingers in the air after it’s sprayed on.
13. Acatalepsy
The incomprehensibility of all things. When you experience something and feel that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
So, tell us, how many of these have you felt?