Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Man Creates Language To Describe Emotions We Have No Words For

10 Words For Emotions You Thought Were Impossible To Describe
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Ever had a feeling you were unable to describe to another person? You need to check out The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

Created by John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is "a compendium of invented words" that describe otherwise indescribable emotions.

Koenig creates a weekly YouTube video of a new word and also posts updates to Facebook and Twitter, as well as his website.

He regularly invites members of the public to send in descriptions of emotions they have been experiencing and offers to create a single word from them to "fill a hole in the language".

Check out some of Koenig's brilliant creations below:

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Yu Yi: The Desire to Feel Intensely Again(01 of10)
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Ambedo: Life For Its Own Sake(02 of10)
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Olēka: The Awareness of How Few Days Are Memorable(03 of10)
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Nodus Tollens: When Your Life Doesn't Fit into a Story(04 of10)
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Zenosyne: The Sense That Time Keeps Going Faster(05 of10)
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Sonder: The Realisation That Everyone Has A Story(06 of10)
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Opia: The Ambiguous Intensity of Eye Contact(07 of10)
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Vemödalen: The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done(08 of10)
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Anemoia: Nostalgia For A Time You’ve Never Known(09 of10)
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Onism: The Awareness of How Little of the World You'll Experience(10 of10)
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