If you have a problem explaining how you feel about issues sometimes, this article could help in providing words for your feelings. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows provides made up words for emotions that are seemingly indescribable.
The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
The ambiguous intensity of looking at someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
The inexplanable urge to push people away. Even close friends who you really like.
A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
The frustration of taking pictures of something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
A conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening.
A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
The state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
The desire to be struck by disaster. To survive a plane crash or to lose everything in a fire incident.
The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
The realization that the plot of your life doesn:t make sense to you anymore.
The frustration of being stuck in just one body that inhabits only one place at a time.
The desire to care less about things.
Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had. The same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been complaining about for years.
The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
A sense or feeling of sorrow or sadness without any apparent cause.
I relate to more than half of the words on this list. Please interact with us on Twitter and Instagram with the words that you relate with.
