11/23/2023 0 Comments Obscure words for sadness![]() The “Sonder café” mentioned above, is a recent example (reported in Transform, a magazine for rebranding and brand development). The word “sonder” has started to appear in online conversations and in everyday language. ![]() “ Each (new) word actually means something etymologically, having been built from one of a dozen languages or renovated jargon.” His latest entry is dated January 2021 and it is the adjective aftersome (from the Swedish word “eftersom”, “because”), meaning “astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today - as if you’d spent years bouncing down a Plinko pegboard, passing through a million harmless decision points, any one of which might’ve changed everything - which makes your long and winding path feel fated from the start, yet so unlikely as to be virtually impossible.” Other recent examples include “lilo” (from “lifelong” and “lie low”), meaning “a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if no time had passed since you last saw each other”, and “agnosthesia” (from the Greek “agnostos”, “unknown”, and “diathesis”, “mood”), meaning “the state of not knowing how you really feel about something, which forces you to sift through clues hidden in your behavior, as if you were some other person - noticing a twist of acid in your voice, an obscene amount of effort put into something trifling, or an inexplicable weight on your shoulders that makes it difficult to get out of bed”.Ī few of Keonig’s neologisms have now “broken into language” But vocabulary isn’t created in a vacuum, he adds. Something borrowed, something new: Koenig’s process of creating new wordsĮach entry in the Koenig’s dictionary is “original and handcrafted by John Koenig with his right thumb” (as he writes on his FB page). The whole mission of the dictionary project, says Koenig, is “ to find holes in the language of emotion and try to fill them so that we have a way of talking about all those human peccadilloes and quirks of the human condition that we all feel but may not think to talk about because we don’t have the words to do it.” He provides examples from Greek, with its term “lachesism”, which means “hunger for disaster” (“you know, when you see a thunderstorm on the horizon and you just find yourself rooting for the storm”) from Mandarin, where “yù yī”, describes the longing to feel intensely again the way you did when you were a kid from Polish, where the word “jouska”, refers to the kind of hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head, and German, where “zielschmerz” defines the dread of getting what you want. ![]() Gaps in the English “language of emotions”Įnglish is magnificent, says Koenig in his inspiring 2017 TED Talk, but has a lot of “holes” with respect to other languages. Koenig is currently working on a print version, and, needless to say, we have signed up for it. His dictionary is full of beautiful and very inspiring entries and is well worth looking up. He regularly invites members of the public to send in descriptions of emotions they have been experiencing and offers to create a word to describe them. He has a YouTube video channel and also posts updates to Facebook, Twitter, and his website. Koenig’s dictionary includes verbal entries, with paragraph-length descriptions, and videos. Broadening our “emotional palette” can foster a deeper understanding of each other, he says. John Koenig is the creator of the dictionary, a project he started in 2009 (date of earliest entry), which seeks to restore “sadness” to its original meaning (from Latin “satis”, “fullness”) and define emotions that we may feel but don’t know how to describe. “Sonder” means “the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own”, and the idea behind the café is to encourage people to recognise the inherent similarities and humanity we share with other people. The name of the “Sonder café”, recently opened in Cape Town, South Africa, takes its inspiration from one of the neologisms listed in the “ Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows“. Quality of being sad- or unhappy gloominess sorrowfulness dejection.By Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village ed Sadness Meaning :- Heaviness firmness. sae 2 letter Words made out of sadnessġ). dens 3 letter Words made out of sadnessġ). sensa 4 letter Words made out of sadnessġ).
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